Just because a story -- in this case, a pair of columns -- doesn't have links to all possible sources doesn't mean something's wrong with it. Dell did not respond to my phone and email messages for comment, last week and earlier today. That's their choice. Nobody can force them to talk to a journalist.
Read the latest posts on this topic and you'll see the truth is starting to emerge.
Thanks for your post. But Dell hasn't flip-flopped on this.
Like many companies in tight spots, it simply does not tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It should, but it doesn't have to. This isn't a courtroom. Organizations always manage the information they choose to divulge, risking their own credibility with each statement. Journalists know this and factor it into the information mix. And readers choose to believe what they want to believe when they read the final report. Most of the time, the truth eventually filters through.
We at NewsForge and ITMJ simply research and publish IT information -- when we are satisfied that it is complete and useful to our readership.
Thanks for your post. I already have high-level confirmation of this. You may be able to help clarify this story greatly. Can you please email me at editors@osdn.com?
We may be talking semantics here. Questar sells the pre-loaded Linux machines. Dell assembles them in Ireland. They are shipped from the Dell factory to wherever the Questar customer is located. Questar, or the customer, may be paying the shipping bills -- I don't know. But the machines begin life in Dell's factory and are moved from there.
My columns say specifically that you cannot buy one of these machines on a Dell Web site, or in a retail store. That is not a question.
No wires crossed that I can see. Dell media relations office in Round Rock, by the way, has yet to return two very clear and simple calls from me -- one last week, and one today, asking for explanation. This is their full-time job, to respond to journalists. Normally, companies are very responsive in situations like this. Could it be that the company is wary of talking to me, beause I have confirmed information that it cannot refute?
The two commentaries -- not news stories -- we have published are based on evidence we have uncovered. We have confirmation from high sources directly involved in this story that Dell is assembling Linspire-run computers in Ireland and shipping them wherever they're wanted in the world. Dell did not return our calls for comment last week, when the two columns were posted. We'll be publishing a followup on NF.
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Read the latest posts on this topic and you'll see the truth is starting to emerge.
Like many companies in tight spots, it simply does not tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It should, but it doesn't have to. This isn't a courtroom. Organizations always manage the information they choose to divulge, risking their own credibility with each statement. Journalists know this and factor it into the information mix. And readers choose to believe what they want to believe when they read the final report. Most of the time, the truth eventually filters through.
We at NewsForge and ITMJ simply research and publish IT information -- when we are satisfied that it is complete and useful to our readership.
Thanks.
My columns say specifically that you cannot buy one of these machines on a Dell Web site, or in a retail store. That is not a question.
No wires crossed that I can see. Dell media relations office in Round Rock, by the way, has yet to return two very clear and simple calls from me -- one last week, and one today, asking for explanation. This is their full-time job, to respond to journalists. Normally, companies are very responsive in situations like this. Could it be that the company is wary of talking to me, beause I have confirmed information that it cannot refute?
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