IBM not to sell Windows Vista?

[John]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:59, John wrote:
> 
> 
>>>1. They are talking about IBM using Linux internally
>>
>>_That_ is a good story to tell. If IBM can find a range of products
>>to suit all its needs, then lots of others can too.
> 
> 
> I recall reading an item on a news forum on this topic about 6 months 
> back. Apparently some time ago, the chief lad at IBM instructed the 
> company to switch to Linux internally, and gave them a year to do it. 
> One year later it wasn't done yet. Turns out that every major need 
> they had was satisfied in Linux, except one:
> 
> They had thousands of internal J2EE apps that ran on WebSphere and all 
> of them had been highly optimized for IE and simply didn't work on 
> any other browser. A year wasn't enough to identify, fix, test and 
> redeploy all those apps!
> 
:-)

There'd have to be exceptions for developers too: how else to test that 
stuff works on Windows?

And, IBM Global Services offers hosting on Windows.