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20070223 Friday February 23, 2007
Dell Users Demand Open Source

 

Dell is reaching out to it's user community with the Dell IdeaStorm for ideas and feedback.  The top requests so far are all about providing open source, free, or lower cost alternatives, to Microsoft products that can, as one member points out, "shave hundreds of dollars of off the price of a new PC."

 

The top  requests are:

 

Other request have to do with similar items, such as improved driver support for Linux.  It will be interesting to see how Dell responds.  Running a Microsoft free environment is becoming more popular.  I personally haven't used Microsoft Office since May 2000, and I rarely boot up my Windows partition on my Toshiba laptop anymore.  I have a few friends, non-technical, I should add, that have switched over to Ubuntu Linux and seem quite happy with it.


posted by kt Feb 23 2007, 08:10:18 AM PST Permalink Comments [1]

Trackback URL: http://blogs.sun.com/kt/entry/dell_users_demand_open_source
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KT... The OS is the only cost component of the PC that defies price erosion - everything else depreciates - even as the computer is assembled. MS's pricing to big players like Dell/HP is about 65-75 dollars on the BOM would be my guess While Dell might sell a few thousand machines with opens source - it will not risk rankling MS over peanuts...

Posted by Bschool chum on March 02, 2007 at 12:12 AM PST #

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