I used to work for HP in both their 'Computer Products' org that makes PC's, etc & 'Professional Services' org that does tech consulting. That's why I still troll thru their web pages occasionally.
It appears that HP now considers Linux a 'supported operating system' which means that all the seperate divisions will do what they think is right for the Linux marketplace. This means stuff like bundling Linux on x86's, providing end-user phone support, ensuring device drivers are available, providing consulting services (there'll be a special group of consultants formed to do this) and generally incorporating Linux into what they do for other operating systems.
The day it becomes 'strategic' tho is probably still a ways off for them. That will happen when the PA-RISC system folks announce support for it - remember that unlike x86s, PA-RISC has only ever has HP-UX running on it.
Interestingly, SGI with Belluzzo, an ex-HP'er, seems to have picked up Linux much more quickly and are doing more innovative things like XFS source, etc.
Yes & that's just what I done (although it doesn't know didly sqoo about proxies so I can't run it on most of my machines).
My point was more that having a.deb would make it visible to sysadmins - who by and large have the larger. more powerful boxes. Plus some nice init.d scripts to kick off at boot time, etc etc...
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I used to work for HP in both their 'Computer Products' org that makes PC's, etc & 'Professional Services' org that does tech consulting. That's why I still troll thru their web pages occasionally.
It appears that HP now considers Linux a 'supported operating system' which means that all
the seperate divisions will do what they think
is right for the Linux marketplace. This means
stuff like bundling Linux on x86's, providing end-user phone support, ensuring device drivers
are available, providing consulting services (there'll be a special group of consultants formed to do this) and generally incorporating Linux into what they do for other operating systems.
The day it becomes 'strategic' tho is probably
still a ways off for them. That will happen when
the PA-RISC system folks announce support for it - remember that unlike x86s, PA-RISC has only ever has HP-UX running on it.
Interestingly, SGI with Belluzzo, an ex-HP'er, seems to have picked up Linux much more quickly
and are doing more innovative things like XFS source, etc.
Yes & that's just what I done (although it doesn't
.deb would make
know didly sqoo about proxies so I can't run
it on most of my machines).
My point was more that having a
it visible to sysadmins - who by and large have
the larger. more powerful boxes. Plus some nice
init.d scripts to kick off at boot time, etc
etc...
Has anyone asked about doing a .deb for the
client? It'd open up the number of Debian users who have spare cycles