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Dell Quote ContextDell Quote ContextPosted Aug 10, 2003 6:19 UTC (Sun) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)Parent article: A trip to LinuxWorld San Francisco 2003
Reza told us that Dell puts Linux on just under 30% of their sales.By itself, that represents shocking and incredible news -- 30% all Dell computer sales are installed with Linux?? But the quote has a context: Later, in the meeting rooms Dell Director Reza Rooholamini talked about Dell's high-performance computing clusters (HPCC) with PowerEdge servers. Among Dell's HPCC customers are the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (NCSA). That Dell HPCC cluster runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ranks among the fastest supercomputers in the world. Dell can customize any system, whether a supercomputing HPCC or a home PC, with your choice of OS, including several flavors of mainstream Linux. Reza told us that Dell puts Linux on just under 30% of their sales.And, it may help to know that "Reza"'s title is: Dr. Reza RooholaminiNow that the context (Enterprise Solutions, specifically High Performance Computer Clusters) is clear, are you surprised that the 30% number is so low? However, the sentence before Dr. Rooholamini's quote mentions the entire Dell Product line, so the paragraph's context was popped off my context stack on first reading. I had to re-read the whole paragraph to overcome the amazement of what seemed like impending World Domination (TM)(R) by Linux.
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