If you think selling Linux is easy, why not beat Dell to it?
,----[ Quote ]
| Why don't the people asking Dell for Linux PCs start their own
| companies and do likewise? If there's a market, it should be
| really easy. And unlike Mike, you won't even have to beat IBM.
`----
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,2028451,00.html
I guess Jack Schofield had written this before he heard the latest. H-P and
Dell are battling (PR-wise) and consider preinstalling GNU/Linux. H-P has
just arrived at the station, out of nowhere, with words like "cricial mass",
which will give Microsoft a real headache.
Related:
HP considering factory-loaded Linux desktops and notebooks
,----[ Quote ]
| Management at HP has commented on the situation, saying they are
| considering offering standard systems with a preloaded distro of
| Linux, which would be an industry first for desktops and notebooks
`----
http://www.techspot.com/news/24571-hp-considering-factoryloaded-linux-desktops-and-notebooks.html
Dell considers big change: offering Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| PC maker says it received more than 100,000 customer requests for Linux
| and may offer it as a Windows alternative.
|
| Dell is considering offering the Linux operating
| system as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows on its personal
| computers, a Dell spokesman said on Tuesday.
|
`----
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/06/technology/dell_linux.reut/index.htm
|
|