[LINK] IBM readies Microsoft-free desktop
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Fri Dec 5 10:57:49 AEDT 2008
At 10:39 AM 5/12/2008, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>An article in The Wall Street Journal claims that the firm has developed
>a virtual desktop system that runs in a virtual environment on servers
>in the back office. It is based on Ubuntu Linux and includes a suite of
>office applications and collaboration tools based on IBM's Lotus
>software products.
Whose 'back office' servers? Is this one of those client server
applications models? I would assume the data resides on the local disk, though.
Jan
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