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Story: It's time vendors ate their own penguin food

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Its disgusting to see these spineless CEOs announcing savings of using O.S. and even thumping chest on how much money they made (HP, IBM) ! See the paradox there ?

IBM has always been FUDing to O.S. community - they know that most open source/linux users use Unix at work and they want to replace any brand of unix ( even Aix) with their 'linux' ( read proprietary) solutions, usually costing MORE than what they are trying to replace. Each unix installation lost is a gain for m$. For m$ will later market the hell out of linux and no vendor will be there to defend the use of linux.

Take the example of Munich - they (IBM) charged MORE than m$ for the contract. Now they are not even offering support to migrate ( m$ deal appears to be better actually) ! Pretty soon munich will return to m$ ( there are already reports of bickerings), IBM would have made its illicit millions and linux advocates will still be clinging to IBM coattails for an encore.

IBM DOES NOT advocate linux, it takes ADVANTAGE of die hard linux advocates, including city of Munich. If IBM was interested in advocating linux, it would have used this opportunity to do a good job at cost savings to munich; instead they actually seem to be helping m$ by a) charging higher than m$ and b) screwing it up.

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