[plug] [link] interesting snailfood article, corrected links
Leon Brooks
leon at brooks.fdns.net
Tue Sep 17 21:00:23 WST 2002
Haste makes waste. Note extra `b' in username and sizes (actually whole files)
swapped.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:17, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Some misinformation, some excellent quotes from pp12-13 of InformationWeek
> for September 2002, scanned from photocopies made on the 2nd floor of the
> Alexander Library in Northbridge:
>
> http://plug.linux.org.au/~leonb/infoweek-1.jpg (650kB) Page 1
>
> http://plug.linux.org.au/~leonb/infoweek-2.jpg (580kB) Page 2
>
> `IBM Australia's Linux boss, Geoff Lawrence, says Linux is now
> experiencing widespread adoption. "It really has changed over the
> last couple of years. If you talk to any of the larger government
> departments, chances are they are looking at Linux," he remarks.
> "Pretty well every one [in government] is doing Linux in some
> form or another."'
>
> ...also...
>
> `Last year, 11 percent of all IBM mainframes shipped globally were
> running the open source platform'
>
> Cheers; Leon
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