IBM Puts $100M Behind Linux Push

IainMH writes "Over at the BBC, there is a report that despite the slow build up, IBM is spending $100m (£52m) over the next three years beefing up its commitment to Linux software. It continues: 'The cash injection will be used to help its customers use Linux on every type of device from handheld computers and phones right up to powerful servers.'" Commentary and coverage also available on TechNewsWorld and ZDNet.

They need cash ...

[Anonymous Coward]

... to run linux!??!

Say wah!?!?!?

IBM you BM we all BM for IBM - David Gerrold

[Stanistani]

Why do I get the feeling that in five years you will ask the man-in-the-street what Linux is and they will reply, "That's that IBM stuff, right? Runs on all the 'puters!"

I'm in.

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

The cash injection will be used to help its customers use Linux on every type of device from handheld computers and phones right up to powerful servers.

I pledge to install Linux on at least one PC, one laptop, and one handheld. How much of the $100M do I get?

Dr. Evil says

[passion]

one-hundred-meeelion-dollars!

Re:A BIG ally like IBM...

[HEXAN]

"I also hope that, when IBM starts making money with Linux, that some moral compass directs them to give something back."

Yea, that seems very realistic. A giant company increasing spending because of a moral committment.

Can I score some of what you are high on?

Re:Shouldn't we be calling it Gnu-Linux?

[Anita Coney]

Question: Why do we commonly call aspirin "aspirin" when it's really acetylsalicylic acid?

Answer: Because it's easier you fucking moron!

Re:IBM you BM we all BM for IBM - David Gerrold

[Otter]

If this is anything like the last campaign, the man in the street will point down and say "Linux! They're the idiots who spray painted these penguins on my sidewalk!"

Re:Put your money where your mouth is...

[_Sprocket_]

...and while you're at it, I'd also like a pony.

I thought linux was free...

[GatesGhost]

they'll just end up having one guy go around installing red hat all day and blow the rest of the money on coke and whores.

Re:IBM Linux Push Haiku

[temojen]

1. Bill Lied about having a CP/M clone
2. Compaq
3. OS/2

Probably more

Re:They need cash ...

[InfiniteWisdom]

To pay the $699 fee... duh

Re:IBM Linux Push Haiku

[k3v0]

they do not hate bill
hate is not as strong as love
they would love more bills!

Re:Credibility

[Anonymous Coward]

>>My supervisor is so old-school and tends to favor MS products>>

Old school???? How old is he? Thirty?

Old school is Unix. It just happens to be new school as well. MS is a hiccup.

Re:A BIG ally like IBM...

[sv0f]

I always wondered how it would sound if David Mamet and Brice Sterling wrote some collaborative non-fiction. Now I know.