Dell pre-installed Ubuntu8.04, affecting the global PC industry chain

In June 2, Dell will sell four models of pre-installed Ubuntu8.04 computers, including Laptops and Desktops, at the end of June this year, according to Steven J. Vaughan-nickls. What does this mean? I remember that at this time last year, Dell decided to sell Ubuntu computers. After one year of global IT practice (Market) testing, Ubuntu is now standing. In April 17, MarkShuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, told the media: "Now

In June 2, Dell will sell four models of pre-installed Ubuntu8.04 computers, including Laptops and Desktops, at the end of June this year, according to Steven J. Vaughan-nickls. What does this mean?

I remember that at this time last year, Dell decided to sell Ubuntu computers. After one year of global IT practice (Market) testing, Ubuntu is now standing. In April 17, MarkShuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, told the media, "now, all major server vendors, IBM, Dell, Sun, and HP, support Ubuntu in engineering ". We can clearly see that an almost global "Ubuntu service ecosystem chain" is being formed. The so-called "almost covered" mainly refers to the fact that it is not yet included in mainland China (based on facts ). Why?

The main reason is that we cannot keep up with each other. As you may not know, "pre-installed Ubuntu", that is, "OEMUbuntu" itself does not need to pay the "license fee", and does not force you to purchase the "Technical Support" service, that is, you are willing to purchase "technical support" and "clearly priced". The price is moderate and will not "vary from person to person ". This is strange. What does Ubuntu rely on? This is the biggest problem Ubuntu faces. In this regard, MarkShuttleworth is very confident and has a very unique view. Mark's idea is expressed in the way we are used to by Chinese people: by leveraging the tremendous power of the international "Free/open source" community to forge Ubuntu boutique, we first swept the world (by taking over the market ), later, we carefully developed the Ubuntu service ecosystem to create a new global software ecosystem. In fact, during his conference in Guangzhou in February last May, Mr. Mark publicly told the media that "so far, Ubuntu has used 4%, $ more than 40 million, of my fortune ". "Now, we still need time and Investment (Note: to achieve this goal)," Mark told GlynMoody in May 22 )". Mark also said to GlynMoody: "Ubuntuhopes to be the provider of a service ecosystem for freesoftware" ("Ubuntu wants to be a provider of the Free Software service ecosystem").

Today, the Taipei International Computer Exhibition (June 3 Computex) was officially launched on September 10, 2008. The focus of this exhibition is low-price PC. Low-price PCs are characterized by Free Software and external cloud computing. Ubuntu is everywhere. Without understanding Mark's idea, it will be useless to go to Taipei to see the computer exhibition. Today, the global software service ecosystem chain has begun to emerge, and its pioneer Ubuntu is also in the Taipei Computer exhibition.

Original: Yuan Meng