[Novalug] Slashdot: IBM's Answer to Windows 7 is Ubuntu Linux

[Kevin Cole]

Hi all,

By now, no doubt, some (most?) of you have already seen the news...
But for those of you who have not:

Source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/1756215/IBMs-Answer-To-Windows-7-Is-Ubuntu-Linux

IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux
Tuesday October 20 @ 7:57 PM

"It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore.
Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort
together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was
announced a few weeks back for Africa[2] (a program that began a year
ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM
claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7.
They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."

References:
1. Internet News: IBM and Ubuntu roll Linux for U.S desktops vs Windows 7
  http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/ibm-and-ubuntu-roll-linux-for.html

2. Internet News: IBM markets Linux to Africa. Why not the U.S?
   http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/ibm-markets-linux-netbook-for.html

3. IBM Press Release
   http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28649.wss