Dell does U-turn on sales strategy

Red Hat and Linux continued its move up and down the enterprise operating stack with the announcement this week by Dell that it would offer its customers the Red Hat middleware stack on Dell PowerEdge servers. In buying Dell hardware an IT department will now be able to choose either a Windows or Linux operating system and combine that with either the JBoss Enterpise Application Platform or the Red Hat Application Stack. >> full story

Dell rolls out Windows rival in Europe

Dell the second-largest computer maker today unveiled its first computers in Europe to be sold installed with the Linux operating system rather than Microsoft’s dominant Windows system. The potential competition to Windows which along with the Office software suite is one of Microsoft’s two most important cash cows was upped further when Lenovo the third-largest computer maker added that it would also start selling laptop computers preloaded with a version of Linux developed by the ... >> full story

Green Dell threatens to blacklist suppliers

Dell has said it will blacklist supppliers that do not act to curb their impact on the environment. The move the latest effort by the second-largest computer maker to burnish its own green credentials was announced by Michael Dell the chief executive in London today. >> full story

Dell does U-turn on sales strategy

Dell is to sell its computers in Wal-Mart stores in a radical departure from its strategy of only selling directly to customers. Its deal with the world's largest retailer comes as Dell battles to catch Hewlett-Packard which has overtaken it as the biggest manufacturer of personal computers. >> full story

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