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| DATE | 2008-03-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] IBM elinux machines in europe
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IBM, allies offer Microsoft-free PCs for E.Europe Tue Mar 4, 2008
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HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - IBM has teamed up with partners in Austria
and Poland to offer Microsoft-free (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
personal computers for the eastern European market, IBM said in a
statement on Tuesday.
International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
said it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating
system together with Red Hat (RHT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) software
distributor VDEL of Austria and Polish distributor and services firm LX
Polska in response to demand from Russian IT chiefs.
The PCs will include IBM's Lotus Symphony software based on the
Open Document Format, a rival format to Microsoft's Office Open XML
document format, which the latter is trying to get adopted as an ISO
internationally approved standard.
IBM, which has sold its PC business to China's Lenovo (0992.HK: Quote,
Profile, Research), said the hardware would be made by partners of VDEL
and LX Polska.
Russia, where many large corporations and public-service bodies are
building large computer systems for the first time, is emerging as
a key battleground between Microsoft and rivals offering open-source
alternatives.
Microsoft is active in IT education campaigns in Russia and last month
signed a deal with MTS (MBT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Russia's largest
mobile phone operator, to offer services and cut-price laptops installed
with its Vista operating system for small businesses.
IBM said the Linux PC line it would offer with VDEL and LX Polska, called
Open Referent, would cut desktop computing costs for buyers by up to half.
It said chief information officers from Russian organizations including
the Ministry of Defence, airline Aeroflot (AFLT.MM: Quote, Profile,
Research) and private bank Alfa Bank had been among those who had
requested an open-source PC.
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