Novell and HP offer Linux for Desktop
Friday, 26 March 2004 14:27 EST
HP and Novell recently announced a joint agreement to certify and support the Novell SUSE LINUX operating system on select HP Compaq client systems. This announcement expands HP's multi-OS strategy across servers and PCs, offering customers options to run alternative applications with global support, training and consulting from HP. The deal is part of Novell's Linux-orientated makeover, highlighted at the company's BrainShare conference this week in Salt Lake City, and follows on from previous HP experiments with Linux on the desktop. HP's announcement is seen to be a consideration of Linux as an serious alternative to Windows on desktop PCs for certain types of workstations.
Last week, HP launched a line of business-oriented PCs in 12 Asian countries, running the Turbolinux10 Desktop distribution of Linux. HP states that these PCs are selling in India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
The agreement builds upon HP's existing certification of Novell SUSE LINUX across HP's industry-standard HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers, storage, software and services. In 2003, HP offered revenue and unit shipments for x86 and Itanium Linux servers. HP is also selling two desktop models, the dx2000 and cd5000, which are available with Windows or Mandrake Linux.
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