Of course, such a thing needs multinational OEMs picking Ubuntu up and so far, other than Dell's modest commitment, Ubuntu on the server side has only attracted some off-brand vendors in emerging countries who are pre-installing it.

It's reportedly working it ? hoping of course for Dell ? but the key to the door is demand and although Shuttleworth claims “fantastic adoption levels” for the Ubuntu server, it's still unclear how Dell is doing with its Ubuntu-bundled PCs ? not moving much, it's imagined ? and although Sun signed on as a supporter a while back, nothing has been heard of it since.