What we hear from our business partners and customers is that everyone wants to have alternatives to Microsoft's proprietary strategy. The open standards ball continues to roll and we are continuing to support it as best we can.

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We are seeing things like the Chinese and Brazilian governments actively backing Linux as their key operating system environment. We will work to provide the right servers, tools, expertise, and training to get our business partners on line and moving ahead with new products, based in this case on Red Hat Linux.

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This collaboration with Red Hat will help the developer community worldwide test and certify their applications at IBM innovation centers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM platforms, expanding customer choice to deploy affordable Linux-based applications in their existing environments.

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