[Leaplist] What Michael Dell runs

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:03 -0400, pberry2 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 April 2007 9:27 am, pberry2 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > ...
> >   
> >> Vista is nowhere to be seen.
> >>     
> > Check again.  All the Windows machines now have Vista Ultimate.
> >
> >   
> In the thread, I referred to the Executive Biography page of Michael 
> Dell.  On  Michael Dell's page, he doesn't run Vista at all. 
> All his other machines run the 2005 version of XP with the SP2 packages. 
> Notably, the listing is by age of equipment, and the Ubuntu laptop is 
> the newest product on Michael Dell's page.  His page makes that a very 
> bold point that he runs XP that was on the older units in production. 
> 
> All the Dell production units might have Vista, but sales are in the 
> toilet, much worse than before when XP was included, and I suspect Linux 
> is on his laptop, for the reason that if shares drop dramatically Dell 
> will have to use something, and I am betting that will be Feisty Fawn 
> Ubuntu 7.04.

Dell ships ALOT of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on their servers and even on
their workstations.  Their own Austin data center is full of RHEL.

Dell is not new to Linux by any stretch.

-- 
Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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