October 15, according to international reports, said Dell Chairman Michael Dell, Microsoft, Linux infringes on its patent claims against Linux-based hardware sales have little impact.
On Thursday, Michael Gartner Symposium / ITxpo conference on that, although Microsoft says Linux violates its patents, but his company's Linux server sales growth rate is still higher than Windows servers.
He said that in servers, Linux continues to grow strong and growing faster than Windows.We turned to see some critical applications, Linux, Linux migration has not slowed down the pace.
Microsoft announced in May, free and open source software violated 230 of its patents, but did not provide more detailed information.
Jarvis said Dell's director of marketing, even though the two companies have close partnership with Dell, Microsoft failed to provide more information about patent infringement.Dell servers running Linux, desktop, laptop computer.He said that when the launch of Linux laptop computer, Microsoft did not contact us.
24 May, Dell launched its first in the United States running Linux, PC ━ ━ entry-level Inspiron E1505n, more powerful Dimension E520n, top-level configuration of the XPS 410n.
Jarvis said Dell expects sales of its Linux PC will not be great, Linux growth is mainly in the server space.He said, Linux PC sales will be significant? Definitely not! Linux servers continues to grow.