Linux now forms a quarter of Dell's server business and is growing fast, the company says. Should Microsoft be worried? Long hailed as the provider of choice for companies looking for PC solutions based on Intel hardware and Microsoft software, Dell says that Linux now makes up 25 percent of its enterprise market. The company also claims to have made inroads in the Linux services market and to have reached a comfort level with Linux systems where it can now solve over 90 percent of Red Hat Linux service calls without need to involve Red Hat.
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I don't think that Dell needs to be a leader in developing technology. What I've seen with Dell is that they have a good eye in realising wich emerging technology can be the most successfull in their market and using it. Sure, there was a time when their computers were totally overrated, but overall, I don't think they have done anything wrong yet.
Note: Most Dells I've used, repaired or owned are/were of the bussiness desktop type and a laptop. So I don't know how their servers or consumer desktopt are
Member since:2006-03-20
What makes you think it's trying to be any different?
Dell has positioned itself in a very worthwhile niche - providing boring, cheap, "it's good enough" boxes for very low cost, with support contracts.
Spending more money on research would certainly mean it could provide more "trendsetting" hardware, but it would also have to somehow support this research department off profits. This would mean that the dirt-cheap boxes that are it's main source of income would have to become more expensive.
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2006-05-09
I think it's time for Dell to stop being a follower and join the real technology leaders of the computer industry (e.g., Intel, Apple, AMD, MS, TI, IBM, etc...) I think it is time that Dell set up a prominent OS/software/hardware research organization whose goal is to take computing up to its next level. Unless and until Dell comes up with some decisive breakthrough in computing, it will continue to be known as a mere follower, not a leader, forever playing second fiddle to the big boys.