Posted on 06/20/2005 1:08:53 PM PDT by Panerai
If Apple ever decides to let its Mac OS X operating system outside of its confines, the company can count Dell Inc. founder and Chairman Michael Dell as a possible customer.
With the recent news that Apple plans to become a fellow customer of Intel Corp. for x86 processors, Dell has expressed interest in selling Mac OS X-based PCs, he said in an e-mail to Fortune published on the magazine’s Web site Thursday.
“If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it to our customers,” Dell wrote in the e-mail. A Dell spokesman confirmed Thursday that the e-mail exchange took place.
Apple, however, is not keen on striking a deal with the world’s largest PC vendor.
“Mac OS X will only run on Macs. Apple has no plans to sell Mac OS X software to run on PCs,” an Apple spokeswoman said in an e-mail response to questions about Dell.
Dell’s interest in Mac OS X raises numerous questions about how such a partnership would work. Dell’s current PC product strategy is famously one-sided: Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system and Intel’s processors for all. Dell executives believe this arrangement allows them to keep their operating costs as low as possible.
However, Mac OS X, with its Unix underpinnings and secure reputation, might pique the interests of many IT managers looking for a low-cost PC that is easy to maintain. And Dell’s position as the industry market share leader could expose Mac OS to a much wider range of users.
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Huh?? I used to own a Mac ('89), have a Dell ('03) had to switch, b/c of software...if it works it works...No Snobbery inferred/implied :D
Mac OSX is Linux or more correctly BSD with the Mac GUI built on top of it.
Mac ping!
I see more PC Snobbery than Mac Snobbery... Just look at any thread on FR about Apple.
Good question, one for the more technically minded to answer. Any takers?????????
Mac OS X != Linux in this regard. You'll do nothing but confuse people if we go down this path.
ping.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
right after hells first snow day. if MS office , Exchange, and Visio were ported to Linux MS would create another (albeit small) competitor for desktop business..
Lets see sell 2% of the PC's out there to run your OS, or have your OS run on oh say 30 to 40% of PC's? Duh.
That'll be hacked about five minutes out of the gate.
The Intel switch exhibits Jobs' devotion to keeping Apple a hardware company as well as a software company. Assuring everyone that Apple has no interest in licensing its software is a move to assure MicroSloth. Switching processor families is a bet the company manuever. Could be the entree to getting rid of Jobs for good, because such a move is bound to have an impact on Apple hardware sales, and licensing the OS would open up more market share for the OS.
They borught business service back to the US. Also, they are constructing two new large call centers here in Oklahoma City, perhaps they are for consumer... I don't know.
Because it's his religion. All his. And Wintel users aren't dumb enough to fall at his feet.
They had a proprietary motherboard and chipset before, and made a particular effort to standardize it (CHRP), and removed the proprietary ROMs.
Will they now undo all that? Maybe, but I don't think so.
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