Michael Dell is interested in licensing Apple's Mac OS.

[billbuckhead]

FAST FORWARD
Dell Says He’d Sell Apple’s Mac OS
For the first time, a PC player publicly welcomes the notion of selling machines loaded with Apple’s software.
FORTUNE
Thursday, June 16, 2005
By David Kirkpatrick
Michael Dell is interested in licensing Apple's Mac OS.

I've mentioned several times in the past few months that executives from several PC companies have told me of their interest in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Sadly my sources would not let me attribute these assertions; PC executives are pretty leery of offending Microsoft, which holds enormous power over their businesses. So, many readers have challenged me on this point.

But Dell (the company) has for several years fearlessly—and lucratively—sold servers loaded with Linux, the operating system Microsoft reviles and dreads. And as the industry's top dog it wields more bargaining power with Microsoft than other PC-makers. So I emailed Michael Dell, now the company's chairman, and asked if he'd be interested in the Mac OS, assuming that Apple CEO Steve Jobs ever decides to license it to PC companies. (For now, Jobs says he won't.)

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[wakeme2008]

1. Jobs wants Apple out of the hardware business and I do not know

why...

I will not pay extra for an Apple Intel box. And the Dell's of the world will expect Apple to provide an licensing product of it's OS...


Myself I will not buy Intel,,, I am an AMD man for Windose boxes.... And I will be an AMD man for OSX.....

[Melodybe]

2. Once they switch over to intel it is a done deal!

Yay our stock is going soar!

We need the cash, things are looking good!

[wakeme2008]

3. there is the small problem of hardware sells for the old and busted

PowerPC computers at their retail stores.

A deal with Deal would a) Put Intel boxes in the hands of Apple software developers so they can convert their apps to Intel.

B) Give the Apple retail stores machines to sell with the new hardware.