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Genesi listed at Ready for IBM Technology section on the IBM site
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Hurrah!
:-D
IBM and IBM Global Business Partners will be selling the Pegasos as a thin client in a total system package. Why the Dell not?! IBM sells services. When they sell an enterprise network to a corporate customer they often continue to “own” the entire system. The customer contracts for the entire package. IBM insures that everything is working and that the latest and greatest is there running as it should. Why should IBM continue to sell a PC when they begin to promote a Linux desktop? First, they throw out Windows (replaced with Linux) and then the Intel-based CPU/PC can be replaced with a PowerPC based system that runs on an IBM CPU. All IBM is doing is connecting the dots from client desktop to enterprise network and ultimately to the "GRID" that IBM now extols (the Matrix is coming!). IBM’s recent investment in Novell and Novell’s acquisition of SuSE is an indication of the coming opportunity and the harbinger of the Genesi revolution. Linux distribution SuSE and the Novell® Nterprise Linux Service package that is being promoted by IBM worldwide run today on the Pegasos. For example, a number of Novell Resellers will start promoting the Pegasos next week.
Pegasos II sales/pre-orders have passed the 1500 unit mark. These are the combined sales based on Reseller, Internet, and institutional/corporate orders. Congratulations to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda. Your years of hard work and dedication are paying off and thanks to you we have the fundamental ingredient required to march forward to our future. Congratulations to the two of you. In 2002 you won the Amiga Award. We can only surmise the accolades you will be awarded when an IT review will be made for 2003.
The MorphOS Developer Connection now has over 400 Registered Developers with Developers that range from over 50 countries. Congratulations to all of you! The Connection has become a progressively useful tool to all those involved because you all contribute and work together to advance the operating system and the platform. Special congratulations to the Core MorphOS Development Team and especially to Ralph Schmidt. We salute you! Thanks also to Felix Schwarz who created the site and moderates it during the start-up period. Felix is moving back to IOSpirit now, but without him we would not have been able to get all this organized. Thanks Felix! As we move ahead, we will be opening more than a dozen new Developer Connection sites with the advent of the Pegasos II. All these “external” developer support sites will be integrated under the Phoenix umbrella and will add new features to make the sites even more integrated and useful.
All said, things are happening and MorphOS will be with every single Pegasos sold to those that are attracted to the open platform and the opportunity to have a Linux Desktop...
...then we will show them MorphOS! :-D
Congratulations to all!
R&B
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