HP going to offer Ubuntu now?

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:34:31 -0400
"Martin Owens" <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> This seems different some how, when Dell, HP and all that started
> selling Linux machines; they began by telling no one about it; selling
> mainly to corporates; and using red hat linux or suse where they paid
> typical support costs. ubuntu in comparison is a few more years down
> the road compared with red hat 7 and is aimed squarely at normal home
> users.

You need to put this into perspective. HP, SGI and IBM are major Linux
server vendors. IBM is one of the few who use it in TV ads, but IBM is
not really a consumer company. Their few forays into consumerland
failed. The original PC was not intended for consumers, it was intended
for corporate. Dell and HP are the top two consumer PC vendors. It
should be noted that HP has been involved with Linux since at least
1994. In that year, the BLU, then part of the Boston Computer Society,
featured Jim Paradis at the megameeting with Linux on Alpha, and we
also had Linus and Mad Dog as speakers.=20

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