From: Adam Flinton 

Joe Barr wrote:
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030709/tc_nm/tech_japan_l
inux_dc_1
>
>
> Technology - Reuters
> Japan Govt Opts for Linux for Payroll System Tue Jul 8, 8:46 PM ET
>
>
> TOKYO (Reuters) - Computer giant Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday it, IBM
> Japan Ltd and Oki Electric Industry Co have won a 188 million yen ($1.59
> million) contract to design a Japanese government payroll computer system
> using Linux (news - web sites).
>
>

What I find interesting at the moment is how usual such deals are getting.
The Big blue salesforce is impressive when given a direction. In
server-land there is a quiet acceptance now that stuff will be moved to
linux (if not tomorrow then when the kit is EOL'ed)

(Note to Frank: EOL=End of the Line i.e breaking & needing replacement).

Tie the Big blue Salesforce to the Oracle one & the HP one
&......well that's the corp server market sewn up.

Now come the serverside apps, a fair few of which are app-platform based
rather than OS based (e.g. built on Oracle stack or the IBM Websphere/DB2
stack etc).

Sony et al will sew up the embedded market for linux (home elec &
mobilephone-PDA) & that leaves the desktop. When big deals start
happening there (e.g. the Munich thingy & the Thai subsidized PC'es
deal) as frequently & in a similar way that serverside deals are
"no longer big news".....then all sorts of ducks will fall.

Adam

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