ENT News: Dell Still Noncommittal on 64-bit, Has Mixed Results on Linux

“While Dell has announced support for Itanium-based 64-bit
computing, Rollins said Tuesday that it’s ‘premature’ for Dell to
begin supporting 64-bit computing in a big way. Instead, he said
Dell would go where the mass market goes. Dell will mass-market
64-bit systems ‘when customers want it; and when their hardware and
software are ready to use it,’ he said. ‘It’s going to happen, but
it’s going to be a little slow.” He added, however, that in a few
years, 64-bit systems might be the norm. ‘We have no doubt that
64-bit is the wave the future.’

“Likewise, when it comes to open-source computing, Dell will
support whatever the market demands. While Dell ships Red Hat
Linux-based servers as well as Windows, Rollins said he still has
not seen an appreciable demand for Linux on the desktop side. ‘We
offered Linux as a standard feature in a desktop, but nobody was
buying it,’ he said…”

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