“Linux.com: What’s HP’s overall philosophy regarding Linux and
open source?“Bdale Garbee: I think we could distill HP’s overall philosophy
regarding Linux and open source down to three words: choice,
integration, and confidence. We understand that customers deserve
to have a meaningful set of choices, whether we’re talking about
hardware architectures, operating systems, application stacks, or
the relationship they want to have with their technology providers.
For open source choices to be meaningful, customers expect HP to
have made the right investments and participated in the development
community in ways that lead to high quality, well integrated
solutions that directly address their needs. I think we mostly get
that right, as evidenced for example by our position as the
undisputed world leader in sales of Linux servers for more than a
decade. All of that means that customers can confidently deploy HP
solutions including Linux and other open source components to
address the IT challenges posed by their ever-changing business
needs.”
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