---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Subir Pradhanang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 4, 2007 1:15 PM Subject: [FOSS Nepal] Toshiba Italy mulls pre-loaded Linux notebooks To: FOSS Nepal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all, Toshiba Italy mulls pre-loaded Linux notebooks http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9644921792.html --- Toshiba's Italian channel sales and marketing operation reportedly is considering offering pre-loaded Linux in its Tecra, Satellite, Portege, and Qosmio notebook lines, according to a story published online last week in the Il Sole newspaper. Luigi Cattaneo, country manager for Toshiba's Italy Computer Systems Division, reportedly acknowledged that Hewlett-Packard and Acer own more than 50 percent of the Italian Windows laptop computer market, and that one way for his company to move ahead would be to offer pre-installed Linux as an option, the newspaper reported. Cattaneo said that in order to make headway in the SMB (small- to medium-sized business) market, his company would have to market notebooks in the 500-Euro range, and to do that, a Linux OS would be a requirement, the newspaper reported. "The corporation is seriously talking about this, and we are evaluating attentively the question," Cattaneo was quoted as having said. "It is a potential business to which we do not want to close the door." A Toshiba spokesperson at the U.S. headquarters in Irvine, Calif., did not have an immediate comment when reached by DesktopLinux.com. The Il Sole article is available online in Italian, here. --- Cheers, Subir --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
