No, HP hasn’t announced plans to pre-install Ubuntu Linux on selected PCs. But the computing giant has scored a deal to provide up to 5,000 Ubuntu PCs to a major university, The VAR Guy hears.
Details about the deal surfaced at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Oregon. Bdale Garbee, Linux CTO for Hewlett-Packard, was scheduled to keynote but had to cancel. Bummer. But then Ubuntu provided a pleasant surprise.
Chris Kenyon, director of business development at Canonical, casually mentioned that the University of Delhi in India is partnering with Hewlett-Packard to deploy Ubuntu on as many as 5,000 desktops.
Canonical has several deals like this brewing but is keeping them quiet, according to one source. The reason: Canonical doesn’t want customer wins to attract 11th-hour counter bids from Microsoft, which has been know to offer low-ball pricing when customers are considering open source.
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