On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:32:18 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Dell Linux set to shake up OS market
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>| However, Enderle cautioned that Linux users, by their nature, tend to
>| buy at the lowest price points. "If Dell cannot get them to accept
>| prices that provide acceptable margins, or change their buying habits
>| to make them upsell targets for products like business productivity
>| and security software, the experiment is doomed," he said.
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> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187517/dell-linux-set-shake-market
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> He should of course realise that Enderle is a notorious Microsoft shill,
> right? A quick background check will confirm this. Enderle has been going
> around, submitting press release (they cost money) to spread FUD about Dell
> and Linux recently. Who's paying for this? He also did this with the OLPC,
> which runs Linux. How filthy is Microsoft, SCO, and the rest of the ilk
> willing to get? It's all too transparent.
Despite your usual shoot the messenger and ignore the message way,
regardless of his loyalties, he does raise a valid point. No major OEM can
survive by strictly selling hardware. The margins are too thin. They
survive by offering higher margin add-ons and through trial-ware contracts.
Selling machines with Linux, without opportunity for other upsells wouldn't
give them enough margin to survive.
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