[Gllug] Supermarket giant promotes Linux

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:26:20PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> See:
> 
> 	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3588921.stm
> 
> The interesting thing is that it is in the non geek press.

A good report, with more details, is also in the Sydney Morning Herald (a
very reputable Australian paper who have a (usually) excellent technology
section; however they too got sucked in by Google's April Fools' joke):

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/31/1080544548030.html

| Here comes the Sun
| 
| Sun's Java Desktop System is a Linux distribution based on SUSE Linux. It
| makes no secret about its target market - the business desktop - and
| anyone who is used to reviewing other distributions must constantly bear
| this in mind when doing an evaluation.
| ...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/01/1080544634406.html

| Google to offer free email in fight for web supremacy
| 
| Online search engine leader Google Inc plans a free email service
| providing 250-500 times more storage space than market leaders Yahoo! Inc
| and Microsoft Corp, delivering the latest challenge in a fierce fight for
| web supremacy.
| ...

Pete
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