IBM warms to desktop Linux
IBM's other Linux shoe could drop Monday, as Big Blue is expected to endorse the idea of Linux on desktop computers at a conference.
IBM has heavily promoted the open-source operating system for use on servers, but Sam Docknevich of IBM's Global Services group plans to discuss how Linux's popularity now has spilled over into the desktop market, according to the agenda for the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston.
Docknevich's speech is titled, "The Time is Now for Linux on the Desktop."
That's a significant change from August, when Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a senior executive who led Big Blue's Linux effort in the past, spoke on desktop Linux: "There is a strong buildup of interest, but I don't think this has quite achieved escape velocity."
