[Leaplist] Ubuntu helped Dell!

[Kyle Gonzales]

On 8/30/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> > You do realize that Dell sold ALOT of both workstations and servers
> > preloaded with enterprise versions of Red Hat and SuSE, as well as
> > selling subscription to both, prior to their recent efforts?
> >
> > On 8/30/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >> Dell 2Q profit jumps 46 percent to $733M
> >> http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19260087.htm
> >>
> >> No wonder that Asus, Toshiba, HP, are jumping on the GNU/Linux consumer
> >> product bandwagon!
> >
> >
> OK,
> change headline to read "UBUNTU helped Dell!"
>   The sales of enterprise servers are a constant in the equation.

I did not see Dell claiming this in their press release.

Believe what you will, but I can tell you that Dell is not turning
themselves around because a handful of people bought Dell systems with
Ubuntu.  The problem was larger, and so was the solution.

Dell has been a huge force in the adoption of Linux in the enterprise
market because unlike Sun, HP, or IBM, they did not have their own
proprietary Unix (or proprietary hardware for that matter) competing
against Linux.  They saw that commodity Intel based hardware coupled
with Linux provided some incredible performance.  It was also very
convenient that these were the same servers that ran Windows, so the
customers were already familiar with the hardware they could run Linux
on.

Dell's main problem was quality control, which caused them to lose
enterprise sales.  Michael Dell came back, refocused the company, and
has seemed to correct many of their quality issues.  Now you see Dell
working their way back in the market.

-- 
Kyle Gonzales
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