“Have Michael Dell and Mark Shuttleworth come to some kind of
understanding that will see Dell machines out on the shelves soon
with Ubuntu installed?“Shuttleworth says no–but then one doesn’t expect him to say
anything different. To quote the man: ‘I won’t describe any
conversations we may or may not be having with another company.
Ubuntu now has sufficient community and momentum that there are
likely to be proponents of the distribution in every large company,
and I think we do now speak quite regularly with every major IHV,
but that doesn’t mean that our conversations have turned to
pre-installation…”