There may be several more of these paid-for puff pieces for Infosys, a.k.a. 'Microsoft India' (they do some of Microsoft's own operations). That's like 80% of what they published yesterday!
Summary: Infosys was mentioned and promoted in at least half a dozen 'articles' in MIT Technology Review yesterday (there may be more; the above is not exhaustive); days prior to that MIT Technology Review published a lot of Microsoft SPAM that helped distract from Microsoft's waves of layoffs, so this publication is clearly defunct (coverage 'on sale')
Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).
In a healthy company, the CEO and CFO would get sacked on the spot for doing so. But IBM is not a healthy company, it's just a sick cow being milked to death.
