Dell Computer's Dell on Linux Operating System: Company Comment
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Round Rock, Texas, March 8 (Bloomberg) -- The following are comments made by Michael S. Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Computer Corp., the No. 1 direct seller of personal computers. Dell talks about Red Hat Software Inc.'s Linux operating system, low-cost personal computers and computer maker Apple Computer Inc. ''We're going to start selling Linux to single-party users very soon,'' Dell said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. ''There is a growing demand there.'' ''If the cost of the components goes down, you'll see lower- priced machines from Dell,'' he said. ''The price of components has been artificially high because of all the investments in Asia'' by companies trying to increase their market share in the region.
Apple Computer's ''iMac is a good wake-up call for us and the rest of the industry, in ease of use and also in ergonomics,'' Dell said. ''We have some things that we can learn, and we're in the process of learning them.'' ''The information applications of the future could very well be a kind of next-generation PC that has a broad-band connection on it, and that's the kind of device that I think you'll see Dell compete in,'' he told the newspaper. ''When and what it does look like, we're not ready to say.''
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