Dell Thin Clients
Servers and Storage submitted by beijaflor
02/19/07
Dell is able to make full PCs for $359.
Imagine what would be the prize of "terminals" for thin client computing ...
- a low-consuming processor at 500-700 Mhz
- no fan design
- on-board 128 Mb flash
- on board 512 Meg RAM
- VESA mountable
- solid state architecture
- PXE bootable
- Remote OS and application :
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9097
Or even Windows Terminal Server for small deployment if people have the money to pay it.
Thin computing answers to 75% of needs related to computers in school, librairies, hospitals and more ...
Dell could even sell the servers coming with the "thin-clients solutions" ...
I also see the Screen+Keyboard+Mouse option
And think about the network ...
With modern thin-computing solutions, the deployments are made on a larger scale (thousands of terminals across fiber networks) and with thin-clients provided by a large company like Dell, the savings could be on the hardware AND on the software ...
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Sell virtual computers (servers) to businesses, universities and individuals
Servers and Storage submitted by coolest
02/24/07
The concept [grid computing, or whatever] has been floating around, but lacks an implementation that's simple enough for small businesses to use.
I would like to be able to have access to a virtual server with specified computational, storage capacity and bandwidth, to pay for the time that I'm using it and not pay for the time when my virtual server is shut down [but be able to keep all the stored information and configuration permanently].
The virtual servers could be sold just like physical machines with different pre-installed software options and different capacities [but ugpraded much more easily].
My university spends over 100K a year maintaining a small linux cluster which has variable load. It's not flexible enough to accomodate the fact that all researchers want to do 3-4 times more computational work during school breaks. Having a simple offering of online computational capacity with pre-installed software could obsolete the need for managing such a system on site.
It would also free up my office from a second computer.
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VIRTUALIZATION SERVERS
Servers and Storage submitted by petrocelli
03/01/07 **ALREADY OFFERED**
Dell should market virtualization server applicances based on the popular Virtualization platforms (VMware & XenSource). Virtualization is becoming hugh. Dell offers certified Exchange server configures, why not offer server virtualization hosting applicance packages. They could come preconfigure and Dell should procide support for them.
Please look here.
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Software-vendor & community contributied disk images for pre-installing on Dells like VMWare's preconfigured disk images.
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Servers and Storage, Software submitted by jmxz
03/16/07
VMWare has an *Excellent* program where end users can get - directly from them - pre-built disk images with software installed for a variety of purposes --- ranging from preconfigured Oracle databases to pre-installed firewalls and load balancers -
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/
* "pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software application packaged with the operating system"
* Certified
* Production Ready
* No Install
* Instant On
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/oracle.html
* Deploy a fully preconfigured Oracle Database 10g and Real Application Clusters on Linux in less than an hour
Could Dell provide similar disk images that customers could choose to have pre-installed on their computers instead of the bare-OS versions you're selling. It'd be great to just get my machine shipped with all the application software (oracle / firewall / whatever) pre-installed like I can with the VMWare downloadable images.
This should be easier for you too - because rather than supporting a Linux image of your own - it becomes Red Hat or Canonical or Oracle's responsibility to create the disk image
You would just provide them as options like this (and I know they can exist because they're copied from existing disk images provided by VMWare)
* No OS.
* Disk image from Oracle - Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters
* Disk image from Red Hat - bare red hat OS
* Disk image from Red Hat - Red Hat / JBoss Application stack.
* Disk image from Zeus - Load balancing and clustering appliance
* Disk image from Zimbra - collaboration suite
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Now You Choose - Concept 2
Gaming, XPS products submitted by dell_admin1
04/25/07 **IMPLEMENTED**
Participate in the product design process! Dell is using IdeaStorm to decide between two new product design concepts. Vote on your favorite and weigh in to tell us what you think. When we unveiled the XPS 710 H2C at CES this year, we also uncovered it. There were a limited number of systems sprinkled throughout the show floor that had a clear side panel allowing easy viewing of the patent-pending two-stage H2C liquid cooling system. Since then, more than a few people have suggested we offer a “panel with a view” as an option for our XPS 710 line. Now we need you to vote for one of these two options and, most importantly, share some reasons why you like it. This “Now You Decide” vote campaign will be open from Wednesday, April 25 to Friday, May 11. The design that gets the most votes will be featured in a future generation of XPS gaming desktops. 
Check out the latest Idea in Action on the new XPS 730.
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Pre-Installed OpenOffice | alternative to MS Works & MS Office
Software, Desktops and Laptops submitted by dhart
02/17/07
Provide OpenOffice.org for free pre-installation alongside Microsoft Works and Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is more capable than Microsoft Works, and a serious competitor to Microsoft Office, at a fraction of the cost (it's free!)
OpenOffice.org can open, create, edit and save Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
Provide as OPTIONS for pre-installation many other high-quality free software programs such as:
- Firefox: web browser with popup and privacy controls; say goodbye to Internet Explorer infections!
- Thunderbird: email program with free anti-spam and privacy controls
- Pidgin: instant messaging all-in-one program for popup-free MSN, Yahoo, AOL and others
&nsbp;[ed: GAIM was renamed Pidgin in April 2007 to settle the issue with AOL's trademark on AIM]
- PDFCreator: creates Adobe PDF files from any program
- Scribus, Inkscape & GIMP: desktop publishing, freehand drawing & powerful image editing
- Audacity & VLC: multi-track audio editing & universal all-in-one media/video/movie/DVD player
- Stellarium & Celestia: planetarium viewer & outer-space mapping, like Google Earth, but for our Solar System
Pre-installed quality free and open source software drastically lowers the cost of new PCs, and helps prevent software piracy. Cast your vote for Linux and other free software. Cast your vote for the Universal Education PC [ed: article removed/merged by dell_admin] utilizing free software.
CHOICE is what consumers want on their new PCs, not annoying surprise circus-ware (the typical smattering of confusing 3rd party popup-infested software found on most new Dell PCs). Quality free and open source software is well behaved, and may be legally pre-installed on PCs, and legally shared with friends and family, sharing is encouraged! Cast your vote for consumer CHOICE and public transparency at Dell.
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Pre-Installed Linux | Ubuntu | Fedora | OpenSUSE | Multi-Boot
Linux, Operating Systems - Multiboot, Sales Strategies, Desktops and Laptops submitted by dhart
02/16/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
Offer the 3 top free Linux versions for free pre-installation on all Dell PCs.
Quality free and open source software drastically lowers the cost of new PCs, and helps prevent software piracy. For example OpenOffice.org, the Microsoft Office alternative, can shave hundreds of dollars off the price of a new PC. Cast your vote for OpenOffice and other free software.
Offer easy multi-boot options with Windows Vista, Windows XP, or NO Windows (yes, Linux can entirely replace Windows!)
Offer trade-ins and Linux CDs for older model Dell PCs. Cast your vote for the mini Linux Dell PC and the Universal Education Dell PC, both utilizing free software.
Would you try Linux if it were this easy?
CHOICE is what consumers want on their new PCs, not annoying surprise circus-ware (the typical smattering of confusing 3rd party popup-infested software found on most new Dell PCs). Quality free and open source software is well behaved, and may be legally pre-installed on PCs, and legally shared with friends and family, sharing is encouraged! Cast your vote for consumer CHOICE and public transparency at Dell.
Please take a look at www.dell.com/open for linux options on the Inspiron.
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Do what AMD did to ATI: Buy out AMD
Dell submitted by shams
02/23/07
Financially-struggling AMD is desperate; buy them for cheap. The consolidation will help cut parts expense. Transfer the savings over to the customer. Now you'd have a great product at a real competitive price.
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Make a VM WARE BUNDLE
Servers and Storage, Service and Support submitted by arthus
02/21/07
Many companies set at present on virtual machines. Provided for this a solid bundle of hard and software. Looks also after the characteristics (MS PUR's use on virtual machines) with the MS 2003 RC2 Enterprise Server" and promote the advantage.
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 track my votes
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