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HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals
CRN ^ | March 6th | Edward F. Moltzen

Posted on 03/08/2007 6:15:03 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs running Linux, which has the company assessing the possibility of offering factory-loaded Linux systems, an HP executive said.

"We are involved in a number of massive deals for Linux desktops, and those are the kinds of things that are indicators of critical mass. So we are really looking at it very hard," said Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP. "We are in a massive deal right now for ... multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux. That's an indicator." He declined to give details about the Linux deals.

(Excerpt) Read more at crn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hp; linux
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Sounds like alot of people are asking.
1 posted on 03/08/2007 6:15:07 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Make sure it's supported well and they've got a shot.

I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,


2 posted on 03/08/2007 6:17:37 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: atomicpossum
I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,

Bill Gates, the billionaire socialist that opposes any repeal of the death tax, will eventually be put in his place....of course he is not faced with losing the family farm...he can stand to lose $500,000,000 in estate taxes...

3 posted on 03/08/2007 6:24:51 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Vista is the straw that broke the camel's back.


4 posted on 03/08/2007 6:53:11 AM PST by sigSEGV
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To: atomicpossum
Make sure it's supported well and they've got a shot.

I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,


I agree, on both points, I never felt that strongly about Microsoft, but I guess the day is coming where we just get sick of them. Railroading so many companies out of business (with "Embrace, Extend, and Exterminate") then flooding our IT business sector with foreign workers from India (use Americans!!), then the never ending buggy, security train wreck that is their software, and perhaps most insulting of all, the "forced" upgrades where they just tell us what we'll be buying and in what combinations (older stuff no longer supported, buy the new, and screw you).

Yes I'm running a little rebuild computer now from our local tech-rebels, it has all this free open source software on it that is very serviceable like Open Office (same functionality as Microsoft Office, spread sheet, word processor, presentation, etc.), an open source virus shield (which has already caught a couple viruses), and an open source Spybot program that removes spy ware (it too has caught intruders). And all of the packages check for new updates everyday.

I think we don't need Microsoft anymore.
5 posted on 03/08/2007 6:55:31 AM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: sigSEGV

Yep, and Ubuntu has brough many to Linux that otherwise would have never tried Linux on the desktop. This year is definately the turning point in the desktop OS wars.


6 posted on 03/08/2007 6:56:45 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: ShadowAce; N3WBI3

Tech pings? It's good to see the demand for Linux is increasing at HP.


7 posted on 03/08/2007 7:24:49 AM PST by zeugma (MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
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To: DarthFuzball; 21stCenturion; cloud8; lafroste; softwarecreator; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StoneGiant; ...

OSS PING

If you are interested in the OSS ping list please mail me

8 posted on 03/08/2007 8:42:43 AM PST by N3WBI3 ("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
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To: starbase
then the never ending buggy, security train wreck that is their software

Not all. Their development tools are quite good. So is Visio, but that was written by another company and acquired by Microsoft.

9 posted on 03/08/2007 8:49:15 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: dfwgator

My daughter (and I) love linux... all of the four flavors we've used. So far I've not tried Ubuntu... I really don't like that name at all, for one... also, I've not seen any real reason to do so as of now.


10 posted on 03/08/2007 8:58:12 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: antiRepublicrat
Not all. Their development tools are quite good.

Yes, the development tools aren't bad, but then a virus or hacker can't attack a development tool! I use Visual Studio myself from time to time, but if anyone ever writes a virus to attack Microsoft development tools, you can be sure it will succeed.
11 posted on 03/08/2007 9:03:18 AM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: starbase

Not too uncommon :)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-073.mspx


12 posted on 03/08/2007 9:34:00 AM PST by sigSEGV
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To: sigSEGV
Vista is the straw that broke the camel's back.

Vista is dumb. I've tried it.
Operating systems are commodities. Linux is free. Do the math
I use XP because I'm lazy and got it for fee at my job

Look at Bill Gates blow his wad on idiotic charity schemes. That's what suckers have been paying for for years

13 posted on 03/08/2007 9:34:02 AM PST by dennisw (What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
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To: starbase
Yes, the development tools aren't bad, but then a virus or hacker can't attack a development tool!

Actually, they can, and there have been security fixes. Visual studio communicates over the network with web servers, database servers, content management systems and other servers. You expose yourself when you do that.

14 posted on 03/08/2007 9:44:31 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: atomicpossum
I'm a Linux user and advocate, and desktop Linux will not take off big until business standardizes an interface. In short, when businesses decides on a common GUI to use, that's when you'll start seeing it in the business desktop. I'd like that to be KDE (and so would Linus Torvalds), but the purists keep pushing GNOME.

When businesses buy software, they want to train their people on it, and that becomes impossible with different graphical interfaces.
15 posted on 03/08/2007 11:11:51 AM PST by DesScorp (.)
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To: sigSEGV
Vista is the straw that broke the camel's back.

 

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So Beautiful, So Disturbing


I wake. For a moment, I stare at the ceiling trying to remember something. Something important. Something important happened last night, but the details escape me. Something fascinating yet sinister, like touring the CIA offices. Something exotic yet somehow familiar, like putting hot sauce on meatloaf. I wonder if I have a hangover. I wonder why I am thinking about the CIA and meatloaf. I roll onto my side.

There is a strange woman in bed with me.

A lot of things happen at once. First, I realize that this is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and I am a lucky, lucky man. Second, I realize that this is not my wife, and I panic. Third, I realize that she's awake, has been watching me sleep. Fourth, before I can really react to thoughts 1 and 2, she smiles at me and speaks with a lovely accent I can't quite place: "So. You like new wife, yes? Yes. Up now, I make breakfast."

She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night. She seems to know this, and smiles at me again, but apparently she's serious about making breakfast. She turns and strides confidently from the room. As she does, I see for the first time the large Microsoft logo splayed across her back. My stomach lurches as I suddenly remember everything.

Windows Vista. I bought a new computer yesterday... and it came with Windows Vista.

I feel sick, but there's nothing for it but to get up. I step into the hallway and realize that she has remodeled the entire house. I really like the bathroom, it's very modern and artistic. As I shower I discover that the acoustics are absolutely perfect. I dry off with a giant fluffy towel and think to myself that this can't be all bad.

I return to the bedroom to dress. She has set out clothes for me. I am startled to discover that they're fresh from the dryer, warm and soft and smelling faintly of fabric softener. The jeans and shirt are a new style for me, but they feel fantastic as I pull them on, comfortable and loose in all the right places. As I look myself up and down in the full-length mirror, I realize that I look really good dressed like this. You hardly even notice the logo.

It takes me five full minutes to realize that my wallet and glasses are missing. They're not on the nightstand or the dresser. Well, maybe she put them someplace when she exchanged my clothes. I head downstairs to ask her.

The question dies on my lips as I reach the foyer. First off, my house now has a foyer. Sunlight streams in through thousands of cut facets. There is so much glass I almost wonder if there are walls. White tile stretches across the floor, forming a beautiful backdrop for stunning furniture and art. My house now has art in it. And there, by the front door, stands my beautiful new bride, smiling fondly at me as she silently throttles the paperboy.

The world goes dark and my vision becomes a tunnel. I see the paperboy, pinned to the wall. Her impossibly strong hands around his throat, squeezing. His feet are kicking--she has lifted him off the floor by his neck. He looks desperately at me, eyes wide in terror, mouth opening and closing but unable to make a sound. My lovely wife smiles again and says, "This paperboy needs your permission to continue."

Numbly, I nod my head. Instantly she releases the paperboy. He coughs once, then stands up and smiles as if nothing has happened. He hands me the paper and leaves. Still dumbfounded, I watch silently as she pads softly to the kitchen and begins cooking.

After several minutes I realize that I am just standing there, watching her. I am still shaking, but she is so beautiful... so beautiful it makes my chest ache. I continue staring until the shaking goes away. Eventually I drag myself from my reverie, but it is not easy. I decide to try conversation.

"Oh, when I was dressing, I noticed that my wallet and glasses are gone. Did you move them? Where are they?"

"Glasses?" she asks in reply. "...wallet?"

"Yeah, so I can do stuff."

"I can do stuff," she says. "With me, you can do more."

"Uh, yeah... but I really need my glasses."

She smiles at me thoughtfully. I smile back, but slowly I realize that she's not going to answer me. After several seconds of standing there looking beautiful, she turns back to the stove and resumes cooking.

"Okay," I announce. "I'll find them myself." Immediately she jumps in front of me.

"You would like help finding something? I have many new ways to search."

Ooookay. Kind of creepy, but... "Yeah. Where are my glasses?"

"Glasses?"

"Yes. Oh, okay. Look, what I want is to see the screen resolution."

She turns and goes straight to a cupboard. "Resolution is in cupboard seven. Appearance and Personalization, Adjust screen resolution. Also in cupboard nine, Ease of Access Center, Adjust screen resolution for reading."

"Oh, I see. It used to be I just right-clicked anywhere on the desktop and chose Properties. Cupboard seven, I guess. I just want to see what the current resolution is."

She listens dutifully but stares at me blankly.

"Well? Let's have a look. What is the resolution?"

She looks into cupboard seven. "You are using Gateway Widescreen LCD monitor and Norwood Micro LCD. I have set best resolutions for them. Would you like breakfast?"

"No, I want to know what the resolution is."

"It is the best for these monitors. They are side by side now. I can duplicate the same image on both of them if you want--"

"No! Just tell me what the resolution is! It's a brand-new monitor and I want to know what the native LCD resolution is! I don't want to change anything, I just want to know what you're doing with it!"

She continues to smile beautifully at me, but does nothing. It's as if she doesn't realize how frustrated I am. Or perhaps she cannot conceive the possibility of not satisfying me, of not being beautiful enough. I realize this is getting nowhere. I march past her and peer into the cupboard.

It is full of beautifully polished tools and devices, laid out in an aesthetically pleasing pattern. The pattern is strange to me but I can see that once I learn it it will be easier to find and use the tools I use most. It's annoying now, but I can already start to see how I could get used to this. At last I see my glasses on a back shelf, tucked out of the way. I reach in and pull them out.

Suddenly the world goes dark again. She has turned me around, her beautiful gaze locked with mine. I cannot breathe, and realize with horror that her perfect hands are closed about my throat. The world, so full of sound, goes eerily silent. I claw at her hands but they are unyielding. She smiles, as beautifully as always, and says, "Display Properties needs your permission to continue." Somehow I manage to nod or squeak out an affirmation, and she lets go. Color and sound return to the world as I fall to me knees, gasping for breath.

I stay down for several minutes, not daring to look up at her. She resumes cooking. I don't look up until I hear her setting the table. At last I climb to my feet and ask the only question I can think of.

"What's for breakfast?"

She smiles that perfect smile at me again and replies, "Meatloaf."

I look at the meatloaf. I look at her. I rub my neck and think of the CIA. I look at her again. She really is gorgeous.

"Oh, what the hell," I say as I sit down and grab the hot sauce. "I can get used to this."

16 posted on 03/08/2007 11:29:32 AM PST by StoneGiant (Power without morality is disaster. Morality without power is useless.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

It's high time somebody stepped up to the plate. Dell got scared. Let's hope HP faces down MS and moves forward with this. I'm an enthusiastic user of both Windows and Linux(and OS X for that matter), but MS needs some market pressure to keep their pricing in check. Both MS's EULA's and pricing is getting completely out of hand.


17 posted on 03/08/2007 11:57:58 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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To: N3WBI3

what do you use for word processing?

didn't red hat sell out?


18 posted on 03/08/2007 3:18:38 PM PST by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
said Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing

Now there's an unbiased source if I ever saw one. /SARCASM

19 posted on 03/08/2007 4:19:41 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: dfwgator
This year is definately the turning point in the desktop OS wars.

Definitely?

20 posted on 03/08/2007 4:21:45 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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