This company has bought many workstations and servers from Dell
pre-configured for and shipped with Linux. One of them happens to be mine,
a nice Precision 420 workstation (although I am typing on the WinDoze box
next to it). Additionally I have had many calls in the last few months with
very high-level people at various groups within IBM. Their committment to
Linux is real and I have personally experienced it. However, you must
realize that with a company the size of IBM, they are not going to be able
to port every product over to Linux in weeks or months or even a year. You
have to realize the company that you are talking about.
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Mike Burger
Subject: RE: ibm's (alleged) commitment to linux And Dell
We bought a server about a year ago. Dell then refused to sell us a 'clean'
box. They said they would install Windows 95 instead of NT Server and not
charge us for it (non-transferable licence of course).
Instead we went to Transtec who sold us a server preinstalled with RH6.2.
They assured us that they paid no licence fee to Microsoft, as for whether
that's true or not is debatable but we did try not to buy a licence for
software we cannot use.
===== Original Message from Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at 27/02/01
16:00
>The point wasn't that you couldn't get Linux on a laptop from those
>vendors...it was that you couldn't order a laptop with no OS on it from
>those vendors, and even if you could, you'd probably have to pay for a
>license for Windows anyhow.
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