I heard from some IBM employees that since an internal memo was leaked to the press (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13485), there is a strong push to get a Linux desktop image fully functional. Imagine - one of the largest consulting companies running Linux as the standard desktop image :) For the last several months when I consulted there, I used Fedora RC1 as my desktop, so it is possible. -- George Toft, CISSP, MSIS CIO AGD,LLC www.agdllc.com 623-203-1760 Craig White wrote: > > Links from this month's Red Hat - Under the Brim (for the non-Red Hat > folks) are very interesting. Normally I don't regurgitate links but I > thought that these were on topic to recent discussions. > > Red Hat CEO discusses "Putting Linux on the Desktop" > Why has Red Hat now decided to release a corporate desktop product? Will > a Linux desktop succeed against a competitor that has a 96% market > share? Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO, Chairman, and President, answers > these tough questions and more in this month's Linux Insider. > > > Success Story: City of Chicago finding a better way with Red Hat > Chicago prides itself on finding a better way to do thingsā??from > strengthening public education to inventing Cracker Jacks, lowering > crime to building the first skyscraper. In the same spirit, this year > they've begun migrating their IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to > improve performance and save costs. > > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss