alan c wrote: > For some days now there has been an avalanche of requests for linux > including Ubuntu, on Dell machines, [...] > But why do I not see a Ubuntu comment in addition to Novell? > And why is it only corporate products? >
Eric S Raymond provides some insight in his " World Domination 201" paper. I posted about this in the past few days here: http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015369.html http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015384.html So really, we need to stop correlating the survey with their Novell announcement and remember this is a limited, corporate-market target, Novell-only-for-now deal. Good news, but certainly not "Any Linux on all Dells for eveyone, because of this single survey". Why ? Among other reasons, the seer size of Dell - but also pressure from MS I guess. They actually clarified that later on: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=linux_and_unix&articleId=9011907&taxonomyId=122&intsrc=kc_top Fabian Rodriguez https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabianRodriguez -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
