Fwd: HP & IBM et al vs Sun

Andrew Malcolmson andzy-ZTO5kqT2PaM at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 3 21:23:21 UTC 2003


I sent Kevin Restivo of the National Post the following email about his
story 

http://www.nationalpost.ca/financialpost/story.html?id=0ACCA562-E181-4BC2-9460-50BBFF9397A7

about Sun's problems pretty much stating that selling Linux puts Sun at a
disadvantage vs. IBM and HP.

Does this guy have a history of writing inaccurate stories about Linux?


----- Original message -----
From: "Andrew Malcolmson" <andrew-mQDsgmoLwK2nS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org>
To: krestivo-U0LLASLCtz+kIav1LDZHxg at public.gmane.org
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:18:10 -0500
Subject: HP & IBM et al vs Sun

Re your story today about IBM and HP 
"win[ning] sales from its smaller competitor by using cheaper Intel
computer chips and Microsoft's Windows software."

You imply that selling Windows gives IBM and HP an advantage over Sun. 
However, HP isn't neglecting to use Linux as well as Windows to win over
Sun customers and will even offer them $25,000 to switch.

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3087041

Dell is also selling Linux servers and seems to be taking over HP's lead:

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22373.html

Gateway too sees a market for Linux and will sell you a server with
RedHat preinstalled. (This ad is aimed at the Government and non-profit
sector):

http://esource.gateway.com/prod_config.asp?sku=15853495&mscssid=2512984





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