From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:58:12 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:g8i6ev0ohjr1koujv4md7fpb7aoch4bqov{at}4ax.com...
>
>> HP Proliants are standard in my company; we buy them without any OS so
>> that we can install a standardized version of Windows 2000 and some
>> ancillary software.
>>
>> It's likely that any large corp with some flavor of an enterprise
>> agreement with MS does the same.
>
>I would think if you buy any quantity then Dell would preload your image for
>you, but I also wonder just how much of their sales this would account for,
>as in who buys more, 10 big corps or 5000 small corps?

Good article on Dell's strategy:
http://news.com.com/2009-1087_3-1014102.html?tag=fd_nc_1

 /m

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