NewsForge: Make Big Money! Deliver 'The Linux Experience!' | Linux Today

NewsForge: Make Big Money! Deliver ‘The Linux Experience!’

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 27, 2003

“Okay, maybe not big money, but Massachusetts-based Open-Pc
founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he’s turning a steady profit. And
lately he’s been making waves with plans to move a prominent state
government agency entirely to Linux.

“The bulk of Open-Pc’s revenue curently comes from doing
something Dell, HP, Gateway, and IBM apparently aren’t squared away
enough to handle: Selling desktop and laptop computers with Linux
pre-installed–and not necessarily to dyed-in-the-wool Linux
junkies, either.

“Morgan says, ‘A lot of our customers are like teachers and
writers, professionals but not in tech fields…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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