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Linux Desktop High On HP’s Agenda

May 23, 2006 on 9:12 pm | In Linux |

Some good news in from the tech world! After an interview with HP’s CIO, Christine Martino, it has been confirmed that HP will be running more of its home user PCs on Linux. That is music to my ears

An quick summary taken from the article:

Desktop sales played a big role in Hewlett-Packard’s recent news-making profit gains. In the future, Linux will figure prominently in HP desktops, says Christine Martino, vice president of HP’s Open Source and Linux Organization. She’s not predicting an overthrow of Windows desktops anytime soon, though.

Linux is striking a positive note in HP’s financial life, Martino says. About 30,000 Linux support services subscriptions added $19 million to HP’s coffers in fiscal year 2005. Overall, HP has sold 1.4 million Linux servers, and Linux has brought $5.8 billion to HP, according to IDC.

Desktop Linux is one of several up-and-comers in open source that Martino discusses in this interview. She also talks about the implications of HP success for CIOs, the emergence of a strong open source middleware stack, carrier-grade Linux and businesses’ move away from “proprietary everything.”

Read the interview on SearchOpenSource.com.