Dell Increasing Virtualization (DELL, MSFT, APPL, EMC, VMW)

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Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is apparently boosting PC offerings with Linux and is going after more virtualization.  The company released some data that it will have PC’s that run multiple versions of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows and Linux simultaneously.  It is already selling PC’s with the Ubuntu Linux system on it.  This came out of the LinuxWorld conference.

Dell is working with the VMware (NYSE:VMW; t.b.a.) unit of EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) for virtualization, along with other partners.  Everyone is getting into the virtualization game it seems.  Imagine when Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) offers out its operating systems to PC-makers, rather than just Macs allowing virtualization with other PC’s.

PC companies in the past had not been too crazy about virtualization.  But now they either really want to offer virtualization or they just will have to offer it.  With the new dual-core and quad-core processors (and the even greater multi-core offerings down the road) and perpetually lower DRAM costs, this is going to become easier and easier and cheaper and cheaper to offer.  Virtualization is coming on strong, like it or not.

Jon C. Ogg
August 8, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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