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Perhaps ...Perhaps ...Posted Mar 13, 2007 3:36 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Perhaps ... by AnswerGuy Parent article: OpenOffice.org sends Dell a letter
""Where can we find a way for Dell to benefit from any migration towards our software?""
When people start wanting Linux machines for large scale business desktop deployments they may choose to use Dell if the price is right.
What else would they get out of it? They are a PC hardware company and they sell PC hardware. If end users want Linux machines and they don't have them then their potential business goes to HP or some other competiting hardware.
Even if a company buys 90% Windows hardware and 10% Linux hardware, what do you suppose is the chance that they'd rather go with a hardware vendor that can provide for both rather then having to go to different vendors for different OSes?
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Perhaps ... Posted Mar 13, 2007 6:38 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Even if a company buys 90% Windows hardware and 10% Linux hardware, what do you suppose is the chance that they'd rather go with a hardware vendor that can provide for both rather then having to go to different vendors for different OSes? Almost zero ? I'm working in company where 90% desktops are Linux and 10% are Windows. Yet it buys all desktops with Windows (and some - from Dell). There are few reasons but mostly it boils down to the simple logistic: it's not known in advance if this or that system will be used with Linux or Windows - better safe then sorry. If all systems have Windows license you save on license management, etc. In short: if you need mix of Windows and Linux on desktop - it's just easier to buy all systems with Windows... Servers... servers are different. You don't switch from Linux to Windows and back at the drop of hat on servers...
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