Dell plans on expanding the reach of its factory-installed Linux PCs to include small and midsize businesses and Europe, Michael Dell, the company's founder and CEO, said at a July 10 event in New York.

At an event to promote its new line of desktops and notebooks for small businesses, Michael Dell held a roundtable discussion to expand on his plans for the company. The topics included the company embracing Linux for its PCs, services for its enterprise customers and how the company plans to reinvent itself to compete against rivals such as Hewlett-Packard.