Desktoplinux.com covers the bejeebers out of the Dell-Ubuntu deal

By Steven Rosenberg on May 3, 2007 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of Desktoplinux.com has all the reaction to Dell's announcement that it will load Ubuntu Linux onto select desktop and laptop models. It's a good way to find out the mood of those behind the other Linux distros, including Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, Linspire plus a bunch of analysts. It's important reading, for this week anyway.

Here's the part I keyed in on:

Looking ahead, (Raven Zachary, the 451 Group's open-source research director) thinks, "We'll see some wait-and-see from the other hardware vendors: 'Let's see how Dell does with this deal.' Also, you could see Red Hat, Novell, and others swarm in to the other hardware vendors to avoid an Ubuntu sweep."

So can we expect a lot of similar deals in the coming weeks/months? Who's going to bring HP/Compaq, Lenovo and the other hardware makers to the mat?

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