While Dell is yet to make an announcement for Australia, the PC maker's UK office has declared: "Dell Answers Customer Calls For Linux In Europe". Unless of course you live in Spain, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Ireland, Turkey, Belgium, Austria ...
Computer manufacturer Dell announced yesterday that it would pre-install Linux on select desktop and notebook systems.
Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat have started selling a new Linux-based desktop PC targeting small and medium businesses.
The PC manufacturer says that Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers.
Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux operating system and the OpenOffice application suite.
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Sun Microsystems announced a deal to use SuSE's version of Linux on its servers last week, but a Sun executive now says the partnership encompasses desktop computers as well.
Marketing director Paul Salazar admits there have been plenty of hiccups along the way but says Red Hat is now working hard to please the open-source community and investors alike.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has reiterated his company's plans to sell desktop PCs running Linux, and said the company is focusing on supplying "good enough" computing.
Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. But what do all the smiles amount to beyond the teaming of two of the industry's biggest players?
Dell admits it has "learnt its lesson" after being forced to drop its Indian call centre last year following customer complaints about the quality of service.
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Dell's Latitude E4300 shares many of the exciting features of its larger siblings, but also sacrifices a lot in exchange for portability.
After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.
The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lacklustre in its support for the software.
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