After Sun goes out (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 2, 2003 20:31 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: After Sun goes out (NewsForge) by deatrich
Parent article: After Sun goes out (NewsForge)

Sun isnt going to change until the board and upper executives are gone. Since that isnt ever going to happen.. I have to agree with Eric's bleak painting.

On the Dell article... Dell is right, people werent buying Linux installed desktops at the rate they needed them to. Of course this may have to do with the fact that their Desktop division never wanted to sell any and had to be brought kicking and screaming to the table by the big boss. Their server division has a completely different take on Linux and have sold quite a bit.

On the other hand.. unless they were to sell at least 1 Linux desktop for every 100 windows desktops, they would lose money overall... if they only see sales of 1 Linux desktop for every 1000->10000 desktops.. they wont have to have any sort of incentive to keep selling them.

After Sun goes out (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 2, 2003 20:49 UTC (Thu) by deatrich (guest, #25) [Link] (1 responses)

I guess for Dell that desktop = optiplex.

Maybe they should just stop selling their linux workstations too then. They really annoy me. What annoying person at Dell decided that the default mouse type for a linux workstation is a 2-button mouse? And it seems to be a crap-shoot what you will ulitimately get from their online web-ordering process.

Sorry for the rant, but I have to say that purchasing linux desktops is, and has never been, an enjoyable process. There are opportunities here, really. Some of us just want to avoid the white-box experience, and don't mind paying more.

After Sun goes out (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 2, 2003 21:11 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I just dont think that this is where the community of do-it-yourselfers shoot themselves in the foot. I know many organizations that purchase tons of Dell Precisions with windows and then strip out and put Linux on it. The price differential isnt enough for them to have two different procurement methods.