Dell you want to Simplify IT? Well here is the list.
300
points posted to Dell, Linux, Simplify IT by jorge
10/11/07
Simplify IT by:
1. Allow corporations to purchase Systems with No-OS, most if not all corporations have their own standardized installers due to their custom configurations/requirements (hence the plethora of No-OS ideas).
2. Integrate corporate wide standardized OpenSource/Freeware applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice, 7-Zip, PDFCreator, Foxit (PDF Reader), SumatraPDF, IrfanView, SpyBot Search & Destory, Ad-Aware, etc. for non-Fortune 500 companies on a tight budget, if not Small Business.
3. Provide an avenue to OS's which are not prone to self destruct or become Virus/Worm havens such as the Microsoft Windows type do. In other words fully support and provide Linux to your customers which will help reduce the dreaded re-install Windows support scenario.
4. Provide (at an extra charge) remote install of the default OS to your corporate clients and small business, you want to be green and simplify IT, do both by not shipping CD's and manuals and allow your paying customers to remotely install through a Dell re-install server at regional locations to reduce network delays.
5. Ship pre-installed OS's without the dreaded bloatware all IT must remove the moment they turn the computer on before a user actually uses it. This is one main reason for IT requesting No-OS to be offered to reduce the headaches of having to remove the pre-installed bloatware! I bet none of the bloatware is pre-installed on the Dell employee computers! Your IT would quit if you allowed it.
6. Provide a built in hardware diagnostic solution/tool to allow IT to quickly verify if hardware is operating correctly! This is one time consumer for IT, determining if the hardware is failing, well mainly due to OS's which don't support by default hardware awareness (as in hard drive S.M.A.R.T. detection and other built in hardware failure indicators), your pre-installed OS's should have these detection software built in! A customer could then detect hardware failures at an earlier state, instead of when its dead for most cases.
7. Offer all parts as optional! Care to guess how many Dell desktop power cables I have? Can I get a refund for them? Thank goodness laptops don't ship with telephone cable by default anymore.
8. Create an IT support line, IT knows whats wrong 90% of the time they don't need to go through the support script for the Nth time, if I re-iterate the script before the support person does on the phone, can I get a discount?
