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Lenovo Saves Linux Users Thousands

Lenovo is now shipping notebooks pre-installed with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. The Chinese Lenovo will now provide direct support for the hardware under SuSE, and Novell will support the software and updates. This is going to be a very important partnership indeed.

These notebooks or former IBM Thinkpads (either way you look at it), the target audience is and always has been the typical business user which sparks my interest in where Open Source is heading. The business market has been huge for Microsoft and the legions of rip-off virus checks and subscription spam blockers. Now that the business community is going to get a real taste of a fine Linux distro, I am sure they are never going to go back to Microsoft. They will quickly learn that they can save the most money with OpenOffice.org, and it will not cost them $799.00 (not to mention that insane price tags of most business software from for profit venders).

You would have to be a real idiot not to realize that these business users will be saving a lot of money in the long run – yes! The price difference is only $20 less, but that is not forward thinking. What about the thousands of dollars saved for the software these business users need?? Why didn't anyone realize that? Have you ever seen the price of proprietary business software? You can expect to pay more than you did for the hardware by 5x easily. This now allows these business users a much cheaper alternative with free software that is more secure, more stable, and a hell of a lot faster then the competition.

Think forward.

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