[Am-info] Big Blue takes on Microsoft in free software push

[Fred Miller]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17312

COMPUTING LEVIATHAN IBM is to offer free access to its software to US 
universities, the Wall St Journal reports today.

 The newspaper said that universities in the USA often teach the students to 
program for Microsoft platforms, but that could be restricting.

 So IBM will help universities by giving access to both its software and to 
developing courses aimed at teaching about operating systems such as Linux, 
languages like Java and database products such as DB2.

 There is a team of several hundred Big Bluers pushing the initiative, said 
the Journal. IBM may also offer hardware to certain candidates

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"Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion 
than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."