Okay, maybe not big money, but Massachusetts-based Open-Pc founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he's turning a steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.
The bulk of Open-Pc's revenue curently comes from doing something Dell, HP, Gateway, and IBM apparently aren't squared away enough to handle: Selling desktop and laptop computers with Linux pre-installed -- and not necessarily to dyed-in-the-wool Linux junkies, either. Morgan says, "A lot of our customers are like teachers and writers, professionals but not in tech fields." He notes that his best-selling laptop is his most expensive model -- an obvious refutation of the idea that Linux users (aside from this article's author) are only looking for the cheapest possible deal and don't care about anything else. Read the full story at: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/0145211 -- Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Kalculate Eval-CD : http://kalculate.com/eval-register.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Kaculate - is live on Intel(r) Developer Services website http://www.intel.com/ids/apac/eap/reference/IndserveInfotech.htm LG bundles Kalculate with MY-PC Available across India eSYS bundles Kalculate with ePC http://kalculate.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Transform lives: http://humanistmovement.org/ !!! Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- IndServe InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. T-88-C,First Floor,Khirki,Malviya Nagar,N.Delhi110017,INDIA Phones : 91-11-2667 4681 to 4685 Cell : (0)98101-20918 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
