I said it before here that ARM is in the process of mounting a coup of sorts. While poking around looking for something completely unrelated I ran across this little nugget of information about Dell being interested in ARM.

“We have been all over this. About a year and a half ago, we put a LAMP [Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python] stack on an ARM A8 core in one test,” said Paul Prince, chief technology officer for Dell’s enterprise products group…

They are looking at multi core ARM with a current Linux base. You can be sure that Microsoft, who had working prototypes of Windows running on ARM won’t be resting on their laurels when it comes to putting the software in these server environments. I’ll be keeping an eye out as this grows. You should too it’s probably in your future for more than just your phone.