![]() In 2003, Dell was the number one PC seller to commercial customers in Canada with 24.6 per cent, followed by IBM at 19.3 per cent and HP at 16.0 per cent, said Eddie Chan, research analyst, mobile and personal computing with IDC Canada Ltd., in Toronto. “It’s really more of the case of making the decision to do it, putting support, test qualifications and sales in place.” “We’re not really talking about a huge engineering effort,” he said. While Dell hasn’t made a push into the Linux desktop market either, Haff said such a move wouldn’t be too difficult for Dell to accomplish. IBM is in a relatively weak position from a PC hardware perspective to really make a huge, near-term push on desktop Linux.” ![]() “IBM’s PC division is smaller and more focused on relatively high-value enterprise sales. “IBM doesn’t have anything like the size of the PC division that HP has,” Haff explained. “Sun in particular has won some pretty deals overseas and a number of companies like HP and IBM, whose Linux desktop plans were on the backburner, have suddenly leapt to the front.”Īlthough IBM still isn’t shipping desktop computers pre-loaded with Linux, this week it announced plans to migrate 40,000 of its 300,000 employees to open source PCs. “Over the last few months, a number of companies such as HP, who have been publicly lukewarm over desktop Linux have suddenly had their interest piqued considerably - particularly overseas,” said Gordon Haff, senior analyst at Illuminata Inc. have similar offerings, although IBM is one of Linux’s biggest advocates. ![]() Neither of HP’s big competitors - Dell Corp. last week released new business desktops running Mandrake Linux, making it the first of the world’s top PC providers to ship a pre-loaded Linux desktop. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter.Artificial Intelligence (810) Auto Tech (31) Blockchain (151) CanadianCIO (85) Careers & Education (4414) Channel Strategy (22) Cloud (2005) Communications & Telecom (342) Companies (701) Data & Analytics (1253) Development (649) Digital Transformation (1168) Distribution (124) Diversity & Inclusion (43) Ecommerce (82) Emerging Tech (24145) End User Hardware (30) Engineering (79) Financial (107) FinTech (80) Future of Work (316) Governance (93) Government & Public Sector (5989) Human Resources (801) Infrastructure (8492) IoT (6165) it-administration (1) ITWC Morning Briefing (109) Leadership (4257) Legal (112) Legislation (124) Managed Services & Outsourcing (4302) Marketing (54) MarTech (3) Medical (19) Mobility (3416) Not For Profit (15) Open Source (26) Operations (68) People (96) Podcasts (1917) Privacy (580) Project Management (1099) Security (7545) Service (38) Smart Home (15) SMB (52) smb-leadership (1) Social Networks (148) Software (4129) Supply Chain (108) Sustainability (77) Tech in Sports (4) Women in Tech (170) He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. ![]() Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source.
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