Bad news for Dell.....Good news for OSS?

[bobbocanfly]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6710327.stm

Dell is cutting around 7000 jobs from its global workforce due to low profit and spiralling costs. Is this going to push Dell to go to the cheaper alternative of putting Linux onto their computers, so they dont have to pay for Vista?

[hellmet]

I feel really sorry for all those losing their jobs. :(
On the lighter side, I do think there'll be plenty of systems running on ubuntu
in some months for sure @ Dell. :)

[karellen]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6710327.stm

Dell is cutting around 7000 jobs from its global workforce due to low profit and spiralling costs. Is this going to push Dell to go to the cheaper alternative of putting Linux onto their computers, so they dont have to pay for Vista?

no

[hellmet]

On the other side, I wonder if MS provides free Vista to Dell being its OEM partner !!
If thats the case, ubuntu? No no..

[DC@DR]

On the other side, I wonder if MS provides free Vista to Dell being its OEM partner !!
If thats the case, ubuntu? No no..
This scenario is impractical since you will never get a single genuinely FREE thing from M$, regardless whoever you are, M$'s friend or foe :p

[Cyvros]

On the other side, I wonder if MS provides free Vista to Dell being its OEM partner !!
If thats the case, ubuntu? No no..

Recently, there were some articles regarding Dell's "Windows Tax" - 50 USD or something like that. Don't know what version of Windows.