On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 07:38 +0100, richard wrote: > On 21/06/12 17:47, john wrote: > > Thought that this may be interesting : > > > > ww.h-online.com/open/news/item/Dell-to-bring-Ubuntu-laptops-to-850-retail-stores-in-India-1620657.html > > > > John > > > > > so why not sell them here too ? > Hi Richard,
With over £700m per year revenues from U.K Government at stake.Combined with a very nice tax avoidance scheme. Microsoft, understandably, are going to 'squash' any upstarts before they even get off the ground. So the rule of the school yard applies for Ubuntu:'don't pick on anyone bigger than yourself'. And make friends with the right people : Dell in India and China. The big change is that European Governments and Governments are shifting to open-standards. Even in the U.K : http://fsfe.org/projects/os/uk-standards-consultation.en.html I proposed to the Cabinet Office Open Standards Committee that they benchmark with the State of Oklahoma, where they have made huge savings through using open-source software. For example replacing Oracle with MySQL databases. Although nowadays they would probably prefer MariaDB instead. People and companies tend to follow what their Governments propose. Then there will be Chinese and Indian students arriving in the U.K. Looking towards using Ubuntu rather than the Windows Systems provided by their Unis. Bit early in the morning for this. But its my slant on things. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
