From things the press has been saying, I think it's widely acknowledged that Compaq currently has much higher cost structures than Dell and its other competitors, and hence might well get killed if it tried to compete in the low-end PC market. If Compaq is therefore going to focus on the server market instead, then supporting Linux would be consistent with this strategy. After all, they'd want to sell servers that actually run a decent OS and get good performance, right?
By the way, does anybody else get annoyed when sources like CNN/AP/Reuters talk about how Linux is a threat to MS in the server market, as if it's not a perfectly fine OS for desktop computers too?
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By the way, does anybody else get annoyed when sources like CNN/AP/Reuters talk about how Linux is a threat to MS in the server market, as if it's not a perfectly fine OS for desktop computers too?