IBM’s Gerstner sees trouble for Sun, EMC, Microsoft models LINK DEAD

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Author: JT Smith

IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner believes that companies like Sun and Microsoft will only decline in popularity, as developers and consumers demand open-standards connected devices that can talk to each other. “”That’s why we’re betting a big piece of IBM’s future on Linux,” Gerstner said. He argued that Linux “can do for business applications what the Internet did for networking and communications” — that is, allow any-to-any computing to flourish.” Full story at Bloomberg.