HP soon with desktop Linux as standard

High customer acceptance of the Linux open source operating system is apparently forcing the computer group Hewlett-Packard (HP) to consider supplying notebooks and desktop devices equipped with Linux ex works.  
The industry service Computer Reseller News (CRN) quotes Doug Small, the director responsible for Linux marketing at HP, according to whom there is a rapidly increasing demand for Linux. Apparently, business for several thousand Linux desktops is in the pipeline at HP, as Smalls reveals. However, according to the report, he did not want to give any details. HP, which according to information from Heise.de replaced the previous leader Dell in the statistics for computers sold under license in the previous quarter, had already delivered computers equipped with Linux in the past, but at that time the response was only slight. According to Heise, competitor Dell is also considering Linux forays.