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Dell to bundle open sauce for small businesses
COMPUTER MANUFACTURER Dell will be bundling together hardware with pre-configured open source software packages for small and medium business (SMB) customers.
Amit Midha, president of Dell Asia Pacific and Japan small business operations, said the company is seeing a migration away from proprietary software to open source software at small businesses, which is being driven by cost cutting.
"The more advanced the customers, the more likely they will adopt open source, because they are likely to ask why they should spend money on something they can get free," Midha said.
But many small businesses lack the resources to configure and deploy free software on their own, so Dell will offer prepackaged bundles to help customers get started with running their businesses using open source software. Dell and its reseller partners will also offer systems integration services and training to their SMB customers.
Dell has already introduced what it calls "SMB-in-a-box" for US retail customers, and it plans to roll that out in Asia later this year.
The company chose open source software for its bundled hardware and software kits because its customers are often looking to cut back on costs even as they deploy new computer systems, Midha said.
Dell will also offer some system bundles that feature proprietary software, he added. µ
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open sauce - HP maybe?
the proper term for software bundled with new hardware is "bloat"
ketchup pls?
cross Posting IS because Dell is little slow to expound upon, DELL dose have Very Good Program for upper end family, like ROG Stuff, at least Dell is trying to make impossible happen. DELL: Selling Computers One At Time.
Heres Another FateFul Event On Skyline to Remember:
trends such as cloud computing, datacenter consolidation and virtualization are making the need for [100Gbps Ethernet] more acute and urgent than ever before," Opher Kahane, Juniper's general manager of high-end systems, said in a statement.
The 100Gbps Ethernet standard has not been published yet. Right now, it is being incubated, alongside 40Gbps Ethernet, by the IEEE's P802.3ba Ethernet task force, with final publication not expected for a year, at least. The fastest currently published Ethernet standard is 10Gbps.
Juniper's 100Gbps Ethernet interface card is "expected to be deployed in customer pilot networks before the end of 2009",
Dell Makes 'Em Hot & Thats Hottest EVER. So Dah! Jennifer, Juniper & 'd Devil....
Oh great now we can purchase Dull Failbooks with confusing builds of Angsty Asshat. How is this helping anyone? No one.
We've had a few Dell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed and they've been fine.
The only 'problem' I've come across is that I bought an Inspiron 1525 with Vista Basic which runs like a dog - but I would guess that's more MS's fault - Ubuntu runs fast and reliably.
That is awesome "Angsty Asshat" lolol... BTW I love ubuntu but that was funny. Thanks for putting a smile.
Hey Maybe when Ubuntu gets its revisions back to the A's they will use this name .... :D