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CNET News: Wal-Mart Sells PCs With Sun’s Linux

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Stephen Shankland
Mar 31, 2004

“Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, has begun
selling Microtel PCs that come with Sun Microsystems’ version of
the Linux operating system.

“‘We are seriously considering Wal-Mart to be the PC supplier
for Sun Microsystems,’ Jonathan Schwartz, head of Sun’s software
group, said in a meeting with reporters here Tuesday. Separately,
he said an unnamed European bank is using Sun’s Linux software for
10,000 tellers…”

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