From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:08:51 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>Good indication as to the power of the IBM "Global salesforce".
>
>Wanna get into the datacenter...hello we're the boyz in blue 
>
>Here...buy our servers.....based round an IBM core solution (iseries,
>domino) with "commodity" edge servers (h/w & s/w)....IBM
badged of course.
>
>BTW this:
>
>"The announcement implies that the current network file servers it uses are
>Microsoft based systems, because, according to an IBM representative, by
>implementing Linux it has enhanced "its reliability and availability and
>cutting back licensing costs"."
>
>Is a direct swap out of MS NT (one has to assume running on Intel) for Linux
>(also running on Intel).
>
>So a good example to quote to the various commentators who say "Linux is
>replacing Unix not NT".
>
>Course they could be Novell on Intel........(they do exist).



It ain't Novell.  Look at the sentence about enhancing reliability and
availability.   They're definitely replacing Windows.

 /m

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