From: "Brian" <br...@english-bay.com> Subject: Way To Go IBM!!! Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:10:07 -0800 Lines: 41 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <#Iq5GYmoCHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP10> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.msn.discussion NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.79.106.253 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09! supernews.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com! yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de! t-online.de!tkmsftngp01!TK2MSFTNGP08!TK2MSFTNGP10 Xref: archiver1.google.com microsoft.public.msn.discussion:69673 Hello Dear Friends: "Big Blue counters Gates' offer for Indian software" http://in.news.yahoo.com/021212/43/1z0mv.html IBM see's Chairman Bill's $500 million and raises "sustainable software industry hub"! 8^)) Here are a couple of my favorite passages: <quote> After Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' lavish offerings for health, education and proprietary software, his company's biggest competitor IBM has offered to transform India into a software industry hub if it adopts the open source standard. ... "We are willing to invest heavily in the enablement centres based on what decision the government takes. It should standardize on open source and we will create centres for the software industry to flourish," Amuj Goyal, vice president, solutions and strategy, IBM software group, told IANS. </quote> One of the significant points not mentioned is that Bill Gates and Microsoft are noted notorious liars whereas IBM has a solid reputation. By the way, been pretty busy of late creating Linux desktops for an all-Microsoft house - Started a couple months ago with just a simple Linux gateway and will soon have 18 Linux KDE/Gnome desktops with mail/webmail, dhcp/ddns, file/printer services and online PHP groupware. (Not a drop of Microsoft .NET, whatever that is...) Best regards, Brian Linux Mystic open sorcerer
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message From: "sdy" <it_te...@yahoom.com> Sender: "sdy" <it_te...@yahoom.com> References: <#Iq5GYmoCHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP10> Subject: Way To Go IBM!!! Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:22:17 -0800 Lines: 67 Message-ID: <049b01c2a3e9$2b983ce0$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Thread-Index: AcKj6SuYBndGBMfhQkS0E7I53MmvGg== Newsgroups: microsoft.public.msn.discussion NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGXA04 10.40.1.52 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06! sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk! small.news.tele.dk!news.osn.de!newsfeed.freenet.de! news-lei1.dfn.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de! tkmsftngp01!cpmsftngxa10!cpmsftngxa09 Xref: archiver1.google.com microsoft.public.msn.discussion:69867 Open source software is great. I recently got a cert for Linux and have been "playing" around with a network I set up at home. I still use W2K as my main environment, but when Linux can use most basic software applications that Windows can I'll probably make the switch. They're getting closer though. SDY >-----Original Message----- >Hello Dear Friends: > >"Big Blue counters Gates' offer for Indian software" >http://in.news.yahoo.com/021212/43/1z0mv.html > >IBM see's Chairman Bill's $500 million and raises "sustainable software >industry hub"! > >8^)) > >Here are a couple of my favorite passages: > ><quote> >After Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' lavish offerings for health, education >and proprietary software, his company's biggest competitor IBM has offered >to transform India into a software industry hub if it adopts the open source >standard. >.... >"We are willing to invest heavily in the enablement centres based on what >decision the government takes. It should standardize on open source and we >will create centres for the software industry to flourish," Amuj Goyal, vice >president, solutions and strategy, IBM software group, told IANS. ></quote> > >One of the significant points not mentioned is that Bill Gates and Microsoft >are noted notorious liars whereas IBM has a solid reputation. > >By the way, been pretty busy of late creating Linux desktops for an >all-Microsoft house - Started a couple months ago with just a simple Linux >gateway and will soon have 18 Linux KDE/Gnome desktops with mail/webmail, >dhcp/ddns, file/printer services and online PHP groupware. (Not a drop of >Microsoft .NET, whatever that is...) > >Best regards, > >Brian >Linux Mystic >open sorcerer > > > >. >
From: "Brian" <br...@english-bay.com> References: <#Iq5GYmoCHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP10> <049b01c2a3e9$2b983ce0$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04> Subject: Re: Way To Go IBM!!! Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:46:42 -0800 Lines: 31 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <esF12WApCHA.2748@TK2MSFTNGP09> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.msn.discussion NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-79-106-253.vc.shawcable.net 24.79.106.253 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03! sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09! supernews.com!64.152.100.70.MISMATCH!sjc70.webusenet.com! chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net! ngpeer.news.aol.com!nntp1.roc.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net! nntp.gblx.net!vienna7.his.com!TK2MSFTNGP08!TK2MSFTNGP09 Xref: archiver1.google.com microsoft.public.msn.discussion:69877 Keep up the good work sdy! "sdy" <it_te...@yahoom.com> wrote... > Open source software is great. I recently got a cert for > Linux and have been "playing" around with a network I set > up at home. I still use W2K as my main environment, but > when Linux can use most basic software applications that > Windows can I'll probably make the switch. They're > getting closer though. The Linux desktops I install on corporate computers comes with a full array of office applications, some of which rival anything Microsoft can build. I prefer the KDE desktop but many people I know and respect like Gnome. It takes me about two hours to install a complete Slackware 8.1 system including both KDE and Gnome desktops - this includes a thorough HD test for flaws, installation, building a custom Linux kernel and configuration. I could possibly do if faster by deploying prebuilt images but I don't - yet. There are awesome resources available online as well as many local Linux computer clubs - sometimes a Penquinista comes in handy. Best regards, Brian Linux Mystic open sorcerer