[nzlug] Dell and Linux

[Michael Adams]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:35:04 +1200
Simon Bridge wrote:

> Good greif - I figured there'd be a landslide to OSS after all the
> stuff about vista. But 70% !!! Of course, Dell has courted linux
> before and nothing came of it but their servers.
> 

Probably early adopters were polled, or online sales. Either way it will
probably contain a fair overdose of net savvy users in the 70%.

I wonder if they would also go as far as offering dual boot on a 20Gb
bigger HDD for free. THAT might work. "I think my Windows Vista has a
virus so i am writing this email from Linux, did you know its got a free
Office thingy included." What we would need to do is to make sure they
get both the linux and windows sides configured at purchase. Bob around
the corner can't do it for them.

-- 
Michael
Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.