{"id":240,"date":"2004-03-17T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","slug":"ibm-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/softwaretopics\/os\/linux\/story\/0,10801,91301,00.html\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>Computerworld<\/i> article<\/a> reports that IBM hopes to move 40,000 of their desktop users to Linux by years&#8217; end.  Although that&#8217;s just a fraction of their 300,000 employees, it&#8217;s an encouraging trend.  I&#8217;m not a big Linux fan; there are better alternatives.  But it&#8217;s good to see the Windows stranglehold loosened a little.  As an IBM customer, I&#8217;ve long been frustrated by their assumption that everybody uses Windows; many of the tools they provide for customer interaction don&#8217;t work on other platforms (including Linux).  Maybe now they&#8217;ll have to be a little more flexible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Computerworld article reports that IBM hopes to move 40,000 of their desktop users to Linux by years&#8217; end. Although that&#8217;s just a fraction of their 300,000 employees, it&#8217;s an encouraging trend. I&#8217;m not a big Linux fan; there are better alternatives. But it&#8217;s good to see the Windows stranglehold loosened a little. As an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=240\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IBM and Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-3S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}