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The company sold its PC business and brands to Chinese hardwaremaker Lenovo in 2005 and this time round is partnering with an Austriancompany to make the actual boxes and with a Polish firm to distributethem.
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The Microsoft-free boxes will be made by Austrian firm VDEL, andWarsw-based LX Polska will act as distributor. The computers will becalled “Open Referent” and are based on IBM's Lotus Open CollaborationClient Solution marketing initiative with Red Hat.
The machines will run on Red Hat's Enterprise Linux Desktop but willalso include IBM's Lotus Notes and Symphony software as well as VDEL'sown document management software.
Russia and Eastern Europe are seen as key battlegrounds for Linuxbecause greater pressure on costs makes open source software moreattractive to local businesses.
Aside from cost, Linux's reputation for security is also important.
Oleg Churko, director of Research Institute for InformationSecurity, Minsk, Belarus, said in a statement: "OpenReferent is ahighly competitive alternative to Microsoft offerings for largeorganisations... Taking into account the unmatched security offered bythe Linux platform, it will set a new standard for document management."
The three companies will also work together to get their machinesgovernment certified for information security. The PCs should beavailable within the month.
There's more on VDEL's website here.
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