| Michael Dell: Linux coming to SMBs, Europe soon |
Jul. 11, 2007
Dell plans on expanding the reach of its factory-installed Linux PCs to include small and midsize businesses and Europe, Michael Dell, the company's founder and CEO, said at a July 10 event in New York.
At an event to promote its new line of desktops and notebooks for small businesses, Michael Dell held a roundtable discussion to expand on his plans for the company. The topics included the company embracing Linux for its PCs, services for its enterprise customers and how the company plans to reinvent itself to compete against rivals such as Hewlett-Packard.
In May, Dell announced that it would begin preinstalling select consumer desktops and notebooks with Ubuntu Linux. The company has expanded its Linux offerings into other consumer PCs, but the Round Rock, Texas, vendor has not talked about how or when it will expand its Linux PCs into other markets.
At July 10 show, Michael Dell confirmed a posting on the Direct2Dell site that the company has specific plans to expand its Linux offering. This will include a focus on SMBs as well as the European market. Dell, however, did not offer a specific time frame.
"We have introduced some additional [Linux] models, and our latest Inspiron launch added some other systems to our Linux roster, and we do have plans to expand into small businesses and to expand outside of the U.S. and into Europe," Dell said.
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