Dell dumps linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

That's not entirely true either. Companies like HP and IBM do have some 
clout since they are major MSFT vendors. 
On 12 Aug 2002 at 14:59, Ben Jackson wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Kent Borg wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:00:36PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > It's interesting that Dell did not push back. It might be a
> > > marketing opportunity for HP/Compaq and IBM. Because both of these
> > > companies produce a large number of Unix and Linux servers, I'm not
> > > sure if Microsoft can enforce this.
> > 
> > In the thing I read Dell claims this will apply to competitors too.  I
> > wonder how that works.
> 
> Well, Dell's contract won't apply to other Vedors, but MSFT pricewars
> will. MSFT will charge $BIGNUM if they sell non-MSFT OS's, and <$BIGNUM.
> Any business person worth their salt will drop Linux, etc. if their
> current sales of that product are worth less then $BIGNUM[0]-$BIGNUM[1].  
> 
> 						~Ben
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