Friday, 5 December 2008

Relevant link of today - new era for office and desktop work

Report in the Wall Street Journal of Dec 4:

"IBM Creates 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop

Applications for Thin Clients Would Operate From Back-Office Server

International Business Machines Corp. is hoping to convince corporate customers that they no longer need Microsoft Corp.

IBM says it has created a "Microsoft-free" virtual desktop -- a complete suite of applications that run on a backroom server and don't require Microsoft software or costly desktop hardware.

The software package, available immediately, uses the Linux operating system and a set of IBM office applications that can be displayed on so-called thin clients, which don't have processing units or hard drives."

For the full article see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834959883677705.html

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