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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (91986)	1/27/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

reT shirts True, that's your contribution to the DELLheads, like the Dellhead that sends us all Baskin Robbins coupons when DELL hits 100 (Pretty soon now I'd say.) Will the picture be a rocket this time? Or a surprise? Freeus

To: kemble s. matter who wrote (91986)	1/27/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Holy cow,finally some news about DELL. Dell to team up with Linux. Hi Kemble: I thought MD already said during an interview during Q3 announcement that Dell would sell whatever the customer wanted including Linux or something to that effect and that they have already started shipping systems with Linux. May be the impending announcement will be more of an official thing. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Linux in the limelight By CNET News.com Staff January 27, 1999, 4:45 p.m. PT roundup Dell, Compaq, HP, Silicon Graphics, and others plan to support the upstart, freely distributed operating system, a strong sign of its growing corporate credibility. A new version, released Monday, also promises to be more business-friendly. Dell to team up with Linux, too By Michael Kanellos and Stephen Shankland Staff Writers, CNET News.com January 27, 1999, 1:50 p.m. PT Dell Computer is expected to announce a program in the near future under which the Round Rock, Texas-based company will more actively sell and support versions of the Linux operating system to its workstation and server customers. The deal will be similar to a program announced earlier today by Hewlett-Packard, said sources, but also will involve workstations. HP will begin to market a version of the Linux OS from Red Hat Software on certain models of its NetServer line. In addition, HP is developing a program with Red Hat to make it easier for corporate customers to both acquire and maintain their Linux-based hardware. Dell currently bundles Windows NT as a standard feature on its workstations. Dell actually sells servers with the Linux OS, but does not encourage the practice. Customers can only get Linux as a custom option, and it costs an additional $249. If Dell goes through with the program, it could represent a small historical break with Microsoft. Historically, Dell hardware has served as a vehicle for Microsoft software. Alternative software products, by contrast, are difficult to get. A copy of Netscape Navigator, for instance, which is ordinarily free, will run $60 from Dell. Linux has been gaining market share in the Intel server market over the past year, partly because it is much cheaper than Windows NT. Commercial versions of Linux can cost $50. Windows NT, meanwhile, can run $750 per seat. Dell officials declined to comment.