Professor Elam

Jason Raper furnished this link on how Dell may offer Linux as an alternative to Windows. Seems there have been 100,000 requests for this in the last three weeks.  Now, think about strategy and managerial accounting.  The object is to come up with a strategy that outfoxes the competition and gives us an advantage and that makes the customers happy.  Jim Rogers predicted months ago on Cavuto’s tv show that the Chinese would come up with an alternate system to Windows as they did not want to pay the MSFT license fees.  Linux is free.  Dell is the topic of articles, as we have noted here, like What the Dell is Going On? Mike just replaced the CEO with himself. Mike needs a home run, bad, and soon.  Even though Mike is buddies with Bill Gates, does anyone doubt he would toss MSFT Windows overboard to give Dell even  one month advantage over HPQ?  Not likely I would say. 

Interestingly this comes on the heels of the release of VISTA.If Linux takes off via Dell, how long before HPQ and Gateway and Accer do the same thing?  Hmmm, with MSFT being a big part of the NASD and DOW stock indices, that won’t help the market will it?    With MSFT seemingly unable to get over $30 this may explain why, sometimes the stock market really does predict the future.