Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Mar 2007 16:28 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs running Linux, which has the company assessing the possibility of offering factory-loaded Linux systems, an HP executive said. "We are involved in a number of massive deals for Linux desktops, and those are the kinds of things that are indicators of critical mass. So we are really looking at it very hard," said Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP. "We are in a massive deal right now for multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux. That's an indicator." He declined to give details about the deals.
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2006-09-08
HP made 20 million dollars from Debian support in the last year, I believe, so it's not a huge stretch to say that it's possible to believe they might not go with Red Hat or Novell.