] Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its
] private-label version of Linux for servers, but the
] company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop
] system that should hit the market this summer, the
] company said.
]
] Sun showed off prototypes of the desktop machines,
] code-named "Mad Hatter", to customers at the CeBIT trade
] fair last month, according to the head of Sun Germany,
] Helmut Wilke. The desktop will bundle several
] off-the-shelf hardware and software components, including
] StarOffice, Sun's productivity suite; Evolution, an
] Outlook clone; and the Gnome desktop environment. It is
] aimed at businesses such as call centres, where users
] only need access to a limited set of functions, and will
] be closely integrated with Sun servers to give IT
] managers maximum flexibility.

Why does Sun think they can possibly compete with Dell here??
For awhile, now, I've felt that Sun has to live between IBM's
low-end and Dell's high end and there seems to be increasingly little room there...

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