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{
    "title": "Why Standards Matter",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/01/31/why-standards-matter/",
    "datePublished": "2005-01-31",
    "dateModified": "2005-01-31",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Here is another reason why standards matter.Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, challenged his entire company to migrate to Linux for their desktop systems by the end of this year.…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Why Standards Matter

> Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, challenged his entire company to
> migrate to Linux for their desktop systems by the end of this year.
> Turns out [things aren't going so well](http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;139630597;fp;2;fpid;1).
>
> IBM is running into this one tiny little problem. You may have heard
> of it, it's called Internet Explorer. See, many internal IBM web
> applications were written with IE-proprietary code, and darned if that
> isn't just one big, huge migration hurdle right there.