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Linux Now 25% of Dell's Server Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prodigious-penguins dept.

Sam Haine '95 writes to mention a ZDNet article discussing Linux's place in the server market, at least for Dell Computers. Linux now makes up over 25% of the company's server business, and has become such a standard that they only need to confer with Red Hat for some 10% of service calls. From the article: "Linux and open source have been a blessing for Dell as it has struggled to make an impression, other than as a desktop and laptop supplier, in enterprise computing, According to Martin Hingley, vice-president of the European Systems Group at analysts IDC, part of the problem for Dell in the enterprise is that 'people don't like partnering with Dell.'"

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  1. Don't Fear the Penguin by cheezus_es_lard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't Fear the Penguin
    (to the tune of Don't Fear The Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult)

    Servers powered on
    Hackers don't fear the penguin
    Nor do the geeks, the nerds and the brains, we can be like they are
    Come on baby, don't fear the penguin
    Baby take my hand, don't fear the penguin
    Baby I'm a slack man...

    ISO burn is done
    laptop powered on
    Romeo and Juliet
    Today would be kids of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Romeo and Juliet
    40,000 men and women installed today, like Romeo and Juliet
    40,000 men and women installed today, we can run fedora
    Come on baby, don't fear the penguin
    Baby read your man, don't fear the penguin
    Your computer will fly, don't fear the penguin
    Baby read your man

    Love of ubuntu is fun
    PCs, Macs and Suns
    All of them can run a distro
    Boot it up and watch the daemons run
    The windows were cracked when linus appeared
    Bill's users grew discontent over many years
    Then one day acceptance of the GPL, happened to spur adoption again
    And then linux, owned the desktop
    And they ran to it, and bid their windows goodbye
    They looked backward and said goodbye, she had become like they are
    She had booted debian, she had adopted .ogg
    Come on baby, don't fear the penguin

    (no, I'm not bored. at all.)

  2. Re:I am Linux thank you by gwayne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, that looks like one of the replies from Dell tech support! I always figured it was some automated robot. Now I know!

  3. No OS != Linux by Bald+Wookie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's the love for Netware?