“Around the mid-nineties, I worked for the Network Operating
Systems support group in Dell – third level support for the
enterprise server division. As an employee there, I was trying to
use Linux on my laptop in Dell’s corporate environment. I purchased
third-party provided connectors into Exchange, and ran Office-type
applications as well. But it didn’t work very well.“For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this
thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use
Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not
ready…”