Dell Canonical Partnership
I blogged about rumors getting official and now it’s pretty much official that Dell will be selling some consumer-focused laptop and desktop models with Ubuntu’s new “Feisty Fawn” version of Linux installed at the end of this month.
Dell chose a business model of community support with optional commercial support from Canonical. It creates a very good pitch for local Malaysian Linux Consulting firms and individual consultants to establish some sort of partnership with Dell and make some extra money. It also creates environment where local computer services firms who already have Linux specialists have marketing move where they say “Hey, we support Linux too!”, Mark says.
Especially with Dell opening global biz centre in Cyberjaya and expanding its operations.
As for the models to be sold Ubuntu pre-installed, I think Dell will be either changing some components in the current models to meet open standards or they will be introducing a range of new models for this.
Anyways, it’s very good to see such a big company to come forward and support Open Source. Now, I really hope they will not only sell but contribute to Open Source movement.
Go Dell, Go!
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