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to: Geo.
from: John Cuccia
date: 2003-06-08 09:37:48
subject: Re: Wonder why massive Joe Barr FUD campaign is necessary?

From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:33:01 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>I would guess most of them. Pretty much any preconfigured box (like a Dell)
>is going to come that way and only the custom built servers might be
>supplied without an OS.

I'd think just the opposite, but that's only a gut feel (kinda like gas ).

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.

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