IBM offers open desktop running Windows, OS X, Linux together
IBM says it will offer an open desktop software
system for businesses that puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on
a more equal footing with Microsoft’s Windows software, improving the
economics of Windows alternatives.
IBM says it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that
puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on a more equal footing with
Microsoft’s Windows software, improving the economics of Windows
alternatives.
The product — which the company calls its “Open Client Offering” — pulls together software IBM has developed in-house and with partners Novell and Red Hat to answer questions over the cost-effectiveness of managing Linux or Apple desktop PCs alongside Windows PCs.
International Business Machines Corp. said the new software makes it feasible for big businesses to offer their employees a choice of running Windows, Linux or Apple Macintosh software on desktop PCs, using the same underlying software code. This cuts the costs of managing Linux or Apple relative to Windows.
IBM’s Open Client software chips away at long-time rival Microsoft’s Windows franchise by making it unnecessary for companies to pay Microsoft for licenses for operations that no longer rely on Windows-based software. The move comes as corporate decision-makers have begun to mull when it makes sense to upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Vista.
Apparently Europe’s 2nd-largest carmaker, Peugeot-Citroen will be using this Open Client as the underpinning to their new deal with Novell to run Linux on 20,000 pc’s and 2,500 servers. Sounds like a corporate version of Parallels.
The product — which the company calls its “Open Client Offering” — pulls together software IBM has developed in-house and with partners Novell and Red Hat to answer questions over the cost-effectiveness of managing Linux or Apple desktop PCs alongside Windows PCs.
International Business Machines Corp. said the new software makes it feasible for big businesses to offer their employees a choice of running Windows, Linux or Apple Macintosh software on desktop PCs, using the same underlying software code. This cuts the costs of managing Linux or Apple relative to Windows.
IBM’s Open Client software chips away at long-time rival Microsoft’s Windows franchise by making it unnecessary for companies to pay Microsoft for licenses for operations that no longer rely on Windows-based software. The move comes as corporate decision-makers have begun to mull when it makes sense to upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Vista.
Apparently Europe’s 2nd-largest carmaker, Peugeot-Citroen will be using this Open Client as the underpinning to their new deal with Novell to run Linux on 20,000 pc’s and 2,500 servers. Sounds like a corporate version of Parallels.
Posted: Tue - February 13, 2007 at 08:05 AM