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Linux Gets A New Coat

Dell ships 1,250 Linux boxes to Burlington

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Dell Ships Over 1,000 Linux PCs

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dell today closed a deal with Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. for 1,250 Linux PCs. These were ordered with Red Hat Linux rather than Microsoft's Windows 98 or NT. This is the first time Dell has sold PCs with Linux preinstalled (although it has sold Linux servers in the past).

Anne Birlin, a spokeswoman for Dell in Round Rock, Texas, said the sale to Burlington represented an "expansion into a new market," that permits her company to compete for existing Unix clients. However, I wonder if her comments aren't offered to prevent offending Microsoft since Windows wasn't included in the sale.

Mike Prince, the chief technology officer at Burlington Coat Factory, said "Linux is rock solid. It has a tremendous amount of mind share. It is unifying Unix in a way that it has never been before."

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