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'Microsoft-free' virtual desktop startup gets $4m funding

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| A start-up teaming up with IBM to build 
| "Microsoft-free" virtual desktops and deliver 
| them through a cloud computing model has 
| secured $4 million in first-round venture 
| financing.
| 
| Virtual Bridges, founded in 2006, is part of 
| IBM's attempt to undercut Microsoft's Windows 
| 7 with a set of cloud - and Linux-based 
| desktop packages. 
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http://news.techworld.com/virtualisation/3210826/microsoft-free-virtual-desktop-startup-gets-4m-funding/


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Why is IBM Promoting Ubuntu at the Young Scientist Exhibition

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| A few people have been asking why IBM is
| promoting Ubuntu at the Young Scientist
| Exhibition when it is not an IBM product.
| In fact there are a number of good reasons:
|
|    1. IBM supports the concept of freedom
|    and we would hate to think that students
|    (or anyone) would feel locked in to
|    using a particular brand of proprietary
|    software just because it came with the
|    PC when they bought it. Click here to
|    view Bob Stutor explain in detail why
|    IBM cares about software freedom.
|
|    2. Ubuntu provides an excellent quality
|    stable desktop operating system for
|    free, so we don’t want to see people
|    wasting valuable money on purchasing
|    licenses for software when they don’t
|    have to
|
|    3. We think that Ubuntu is cool and we
|    think that the students attending the
|    exhibition will agree when they see for
|    themselves.
|
|    4. IBM employees use Ubuntu internally
|    for their work and IBM also partners
|    with a Canonical and Verde to provide
|    the Ubuntu based IBM Client for Smart
|    Work.
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http://ibm4btyse.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/why-is-ibm-promoting-ubuntu-at-the-young-scientist-exhibition-4/
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