Re: [SLUG] AT&T Testing Linux as Windows Replacement

From: Jeff (jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 12:52:08 EDT


On Tuesday 05 October 2004 07:34 pm, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Just found this on our internal site today, reported by Bloomberg
> News, that AT&T Labs is testing Linux with the idea of potentially
> dumping Windows from the 70,000 personal computers used by its
> employees in the company.

Let's hope that Annette Jump at Gartner doesn't hear about that. From the
article:"About 80 percent of systems pre-loaded with Linux in 2004 will end
up running a pirated copy of Windows," she said.

 By her figures, ~56,000 of those pc's will be running pirated versions of
Windows. Tell me that she isn't on the MS payroll.

Jeff

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