IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

[m.w.chang]

People spent more time playing games on desktops than doing serious 
business. Do we need DirectX and super-intelligent GUI for a business 
desktop? Definitely no. I frankly don't know wehther they were expecting 
a capable desktop for business users or game console for home users. 
Virutally all Win$ desktops are game consoles for home users.

I do think that the guys who are doing linux desktop development was 
over-ambitious. They should not aim to replace Win$ totally, but the 
business-related functions of W$.

All these desktops should be united and focused, so that that they would 
not kill each other owning to duplicated and wasted efforts (as another 
reader had pointed out about Ireland).

Harry G wrote:
> I suspect it is totally a business (translated profit) decision.  The money 
> right now is in large systems, where they can sell their database, WebSphere 
> system, and hardware.

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