Jerry Feldman wrote:
I think that it would be a good thing if Oracle bought Novell. I am no business-buff, but since Oracle is a big company, it probably has big $. I think that the only way to replace M$ in the desktop would be advertising, which needs big $. I think that having Oracle owning Novell (or another Linux distro) may be good or bad depending on how you see things. I'm not so sure that advertising alone is needed. One of the things that would help is if one or more of the major PC vendors would offer Linux installed as an option. But, that probably will not happen. The contracts
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 3:13 pm, Steven Pasternak wrote: that these companies have with Microsoft would be jeopardized. HP did offer one of their business laptops with Linux preinstalled, but no longer. But, both IBM, HP, and SGI offer Linux preinstalled on their servers.
What about Lenovo? They're based in China, which is pushing Linux. Also, there was a law passed their recently, requiring all computers sold in China to have a properly licenced OS installed. What can be cheaper for a manufacturer to install than Linux?