Dell Gives Up On Linux Desktops?
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Frankly, news that Dell is starting to put less emphasis on Ubuntu for the desktop is not at all a shock to me. They have always been a Microsoft shop. Their only motivation to try Ubuntu at all was in hopes of tapping into a new growing market.
Yet as many other vendors have found out already, selling Ubuntu notebooks is way more lucrative than trying to peddle off full sized desktop machines. Considering just how easy it is to build your own system, there is little motivation for the geek set to buy pre-built desktop PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu. No, the real money is in pre-installed notebooks. And any desktop sales will likely be picked up elsewhere, or simply by those selling parts such as resources found on Froogle.com.
How will all of this affect Canonical? It’s difficult to say, as I am not all that convinced much of their revenue actually came from Dell in the first place.
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John Selden
July 23rd, 2009
at 8:00am
This is a good example of a false rumor getting repeated over and over again until everyone thinks it is the truth.
The article you cite for the proposition that Dell has given up on Ubuntu desktops has already been disproven, and the VAR guy who wrote it has admitted his mistake.
In fact, Dell is just refreshing its desktop line, as confirmed by a Dell rep to Computerworld: http://blogs.computerworld.com/dell_is_sticking_with_ubuntu
To see the VAR guy’s retraction of this incorrect story, see comment #8 on the following blog post: http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/22/missing-dells-ubuntu-linux-desktop-pcs/
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July 23rd, 2009
at 2:58pm
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