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  3. September 2003

Re: IBM, iSeries and Linux

From: Bill <billzbubb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> IBM and their partners (that market iSeries and pSeries major) to convert
> existing i/p/z Series customers to Linux.  This is because IBM doesn't see
> any new revenue models that it can dig out from existing customers who are
> using proprietary platforms."
> 
> What exactly is involved in pushing a customer to Linux?
> 

so, on the face of it, he is saying that IBM doesn't see any new
revenue from existing customers using OS/400. It seems
implicit that they think that new revenue will be forthcoming
from these same customers if they can be pushed to Linux.
Or maybe IBM is hoping for new customers?

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