News IBM goes very very quiet about Linux

The Inq does a quick tally on the number of penguin powered desktops at Big Blue, and finds that it falls short of Sams glorious plan:

IT SEEMS that IBM might be toning down its bold resolution that it will have Linux running on all its desktops by, er, about now.

As first exclusively revealed in the INQUIRER, IBM's grand supremo Sam Palmisano announced that everyone in Big Blue would have nice new Linux desktops by the end of 2005. There was much back slapping and the spinners spun after we printed the memo, oh how they spun.

At the time Big Blue had 15,000 Linux desktops within the company and predicted that it would have between 40,000 and 60,000 in operation by the end of 2004.

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