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Current Newswire: Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine) LinuxCertified Announces its next Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp The Problem With The Linux Community Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within openSUSE 11.2-- Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud" Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions Arcsight Engineer The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-DC-Washington Post A Job | Post A Resume The Guardian: If You Think Selling Linux is Easy, Why Not Beat Dell To It? Mar 8, 2007, 17 :30 UTC (22 Talkback[s]) (11634 reads) (Other stories by Jack Schofield) "Dell's latest launch has really taken off. Unfortunately for Dell's crumbling profitability, it's a website called IdeaStorm, not a new PC. IdeaStorm is designed to get ideas and feedback from Dell users, and the mechanism is much the same as Digg: people make suggestions and everybody votes for the ones they like best. "The problem for Dell is that by far the most popular suggestion is one that Dell will find hard to implement. It means selling consumers PCs with Linux pre-installed. The company's founder, Michael Dell, really wants to do it, and he didn't become a multibillionaire by ignoring great marketing opportunities..." Complete Story Related Stories: DesktopLinux: Waiting for Dell(Mar 08, 2007) Linux DevCenter: Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth(Mar 08, 2007) Linux Journal: A Modest GNU/Linux Proposal for Michael Dell(Mar 05, 2007) LinuxInsider: Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?(Mar 04, 2007) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   There would be a lot less articles like this one..    Jeff Rollin Mar 8, 2007, 19:15:16     Re: There would be a lot less articles like this o    Richard Chaffin Mar 8, 2007, 20:29:01     Users, Vendors, take notice. It's up to you.    Spanky Mar 8, 2007, 20:31:00     Re: Re: There would be a lot less articles like th    SM Mar 8, 2007, 21:37:20     Jack Schofield is completely wrong here.    SM Mar 8, 2007, 22:30:15     He's partly right    Paul Hayes Mar 8, 2007, 23:19:12     Cluetrain...    Greg Mar 9, 2007, 00:25:50     Don't bother waiting for big companies to do i    John Helms Mar 9, 2007, 00:30:55     Re: Re: There would be a lot less articles like th    Jose Mar 9, 2007, 01:04:54     A drive to get Vista refunds from Dell    Jose Mar 9, 2007, 01:19:46     The gauntlet has been thrown    Jose Mar 9, 2007, 02:05:04     100 different excuses not to use linux    SteveOC Mar 9, 2007, 03:19:45     Linux PC vendors    judecn Mar 9, 2007, 04:37:24     Re: Linux PC vendors    judecn Mar 9, 2007, 05:23:10     Re: Users, Vendors, take notice. It's up to yo    blackhole Mar 9, 2007, 07:12:26     Re: 100 different excuses not to use linux    blackhole Mar 9, 2007, 07:20:38     Re: Jack Schofield is completely wrong here.    Colin Walls Mar 9, 2007, 07:39:32     Dell should assemble thin clients.    Mario Miyojim Mar 9, 2007, 07:48:14     Re: Jack Schofield is completely wrong here.    sc Mar 9, 2007, 08:58:33     Re: Dell should assemble thin clients.    James E. LaBarre Mar 9, 2007, 16:01:13     Re: (my) Re: Users, Vendors, take notice. It's    Spanky Mar 9, 2007, 19:40:19     Re: Re: Jack Schofield is completely wrong here.    pam Mar 10, 2007, 16:55:44     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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