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Perhaps ...Perhaps ...Posted Mar 13, 2007 6:38 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Perhaps ... by drag Parent article: OpenOffice.org sends Dell a letter
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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