Dell has long had a policy of moving away from running their own internal systems on other vendors kit and OS. This was called "Dell on Dell" back in the day. It was a little publicized fact that many of the mission critical apps ran on Sun/Solaris.
As time has gone on and their own iron has become more powerful, it was inevitable that they would look to migrate away from these 3rd parties to reduce overheads.
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No wonder they're fed up with it considering their record!
Dell has long had a policy of moving away from running their own internal systems on other vendors kit and OS. This was called "Dell on Dell" back in the day. It was a little publicized fact that many of the mission critical apps ran on Sun/Solaris.
As time has gone on and their own iron has become more powerful, it was inevitable that they would look to migrate away from these 3rd parties to reduce overheads.