HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses 118
ruphus13 writes "HP finally begins to actively push open source in its products. From the post, 'HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a company that supports open source — especially in larger enterprises... Wednesday, it announced two new open source products, geared to small businesses and educational institutions. HP plans on including its 'Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solution' on more of its business class desktop PCs (to a total of seven models between the HP Compaq dc/dx lines in the US, eight models worldwide). Come December 15th, HP will also offer Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on its HP Compaq dc5850 model. The base SLED-equipped model will cost $519, and features the usual open source suspects for the small business setting — OpenOffice, and mail clients such as Evolution.'"
Re:The fear is gone (Score:3, Funny)
b) He said "every new pc". I know Macs run on Intel now and the Insanely Mac project allows non-Apple hardware to run OS X, but call a Mac a Mac and a Dell/HP/Asus/* a PC, e.g. a computer that has yet to be blessed with the holy Apple logo.
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And since I am going to be modded down for badmouthing crApple anyways (hello, slashdot!):
Apple needs to stop dictating their App store so much and pissing off developers before everyone switches to Android and keeps jailbreaking the iPhone. If I wanted to pay for Unix on high-end hardware, I would (instead of getting a Macintrash) go to NewEgg and SCO. And If I have to watch Steve Jobs get up at another keynote and act like the second coming of Christ one more time for a mediocre line of new products, I think I'm going to put all my money in Microsoft stock! Oh, and stop trying to patent the 3D desktop: Compiz-Fusion has been doing that for years! If they get their patent approved I'm applying to patent the steering wheel (car analogy)!
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There, all of my Apple complaints are off my chest. Man, I feel better now!!
Now it's for real (Score:1, Funny)
2009 is the linux's year!
Re:The fear is gone (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, they lost a lot of weight. I remember when Microsoft used to be an 800 or 900 pound gorilla.
Should make their doctors happy.
Re:Is 512 megabyte enough RAM? (Score:3, Funny)
The $500 PC discussed in the summary only has 512 megabytes of RAM. That won't work with Vista which runs like a snail through molasses, but is it enough to run "SUSE" Linux? Or will that be running slow too?
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