The PC manufacturer says that Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers.
While the US PC maker has ceased pre-installation of Red Hat Linux on its desktops and notebooks, Dell Computers Australia has no immediate plans to follow suit.
Dell has strengthened its relationship with Oracle to help continue its move into the enterprise datacentre with clustered Intel servers running on Linux.
Computer manufacturer Dell announced yesterday that it would pre-install Linux on select desktop and notebook systems.
Dell has become the first PC maker to put its support behind Microsoft and Novell's effort to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux server computing.
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