IBM Vows To Spend $1 Billion To Promote An Operating System

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September 17, 2013 at 1:24 am #65545

Freejack_
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Looks like everyone is going after M$ to put them out of business………

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-vows- … 34438.html

September 17, 2013 at 7:09 am #69700

Venn Stone
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Can we call it OS/3?

September 17, 2013 at 8:42 am #69701

Frojoe
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Venn wrote:

Can we call it OS/3?

Transwarp.

September 17, 2013 at 3:04 pm #69702

Venn Stone
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I would buy something named Transwarp.

September 17, 2013 at 3:26 pm #69703

Freejack_
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No IBM is plugging 1Bil into the linux community for developement, IBM has always been somewhat of a RedHat connection.

September 17, 2013 at 4:09 pm #69706

linuxgnuru
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so… big blue + red hat = some purple OS…

September 17, 2013 at 7:09 pm #69711

Sore_Loser
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Seen title.
Came.

September 18, 2013 at 10:28 pm #69757

madhi19
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What would you do with a billion in marketing budget for Linux?

September 18, 2013 at 11:12 pm #69759

Sore_Loser
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Raspberry pi cluster FTW!

September 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm #69761

Freejack_
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The world’s largest super computer it would be Sore_Loser…….you couldn’t fail.

September 18, 2013 at 11:20 pm #69762

Sore_Loser
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Can we talk about beowulf clusters?

September 18, 2013 at 11:36 pm #69763

Freejack_
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They work well in that department too.

September 19, 2013 at 5:38 am #69764

kloinka
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Let’s see, M$ spent more than that on Bing, also Big Blue spent that much in 2000 in their Linux RH push so in real terms, in today’s economy and size of the industry, its a drop in the ocean.
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