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To: Charles Tutt who started this subject	5/24/2004 3:08:36 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) of 197

This link was posted on the MSFT Pod People thread with the comment that it should be "scary to MSFT", but in that case it's sort of like a Portuguese Man 'o War scaring a Blue Whale. It should, however, be scary to Sun. biz.yahoo.com Check, for example, the following: Next came application software developers. Linux cannot succeed unless a sea of applications can run on it. Toward that end IBM has been helping companies move their applications to Linux. Software maker PeopleSoft rewrote 170 applications to run on Linux and bundles them with IBM software and hardware--after receiving assistance from IBM. Consulting firm Sapient accepted marketing dollars and discounted machines from IBM to rewrite a set of its applications for Linux and sell them on IBM servers instead of on machines made by Sun Microsystems. "IBM put an attractive deal on the table for us to switch," says Benoit Gaucherin, chief technology officer at Sapient in Cambridge, Mass. IBM dangles similar incentives before hundreds of tiny systems integrators who tailor their software to accounting, health care, insurance, retail and other industries. These little guys get extra bonuses from IBM if they push solutions on Linux instead of other platforms. --QS

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