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HP To Sell And Support Red Hat Linux

Posted by timothy on from the howdy-pardner dept.

Dman33 writes "Redhat Linux seems to be gaining an even stronger share in the server and workstation market as HP is announcing worldwide sales and support of the popular distro. Infoworld has a writeup on the announcement and the press release straight from HP is a good read regarding the initiative."

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  1. d�j� vu by gohai · · Score: 5, Informative

    HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro
    HP to give 24/7 support for Linux

    seems not to be the first time...

  2. Re:A hardware monopoly by irix · · Score: 5, Informative
    Did you read the article?

    "The Red Hat operating systems covered by this agreement include Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, used in high-end servers for demanding tasks such as database and enterprise applications; Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, used in smaller, departmental servers, such as mail, Web and print servers; and Red Hat Enterprise WS, used in workstations."

    CompUSA will still just be selling HP home PCs bundled with WinXP home. This is for commercial accounts who want RedHat Linux with their HP servers or workstations and are prepared to pay for it.
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    Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
  3. Re:The real surprise: HP, $2 billion in Linux reve by borroff · · Score: 4, Informative

    Remember, HP isn't only hardware; they have a large share of the systems management software market (Openview), and a consulting group as well. If you count all the Openview agent licenses for Linux boxes (which aren't cheap), plus consulting income, plus embedded linux revenue, $2B seems within reach.