[wellylug] Red Hat launches desktop Linux

[Wood Brent]

--- "Klenner, Colin" <colin.klenner at eds.com> wrote:
> Red Hat has targeted the business desktop for this initiative, not the home
> user. Indications direct from Red Hat are that this offering will be in
> licence bundles of 10, 50, etc and on an annual subscription basis.
> Red Hat are talking up the management of desktops, and about providing a
> suite of tools for that job. It follows that ths will recommend a Red Hat
> RHEL Server in the background somewhere.
> Also Red Hat are going to target Europe, where Suse has a strong presence.
> Suse is owned by Novell, so it seems Red Hat are only targeting a Linux
> competitor in what is becoming a linux-friendly market. This is the market
> that has had the strongest growth for Linux, and is coming up in the medium
> term for some major turnover of PC's as older ones reach 'end-of-life'.
> 
> So from the point of view of home users/ small business it changes nothing.
> But from a market perspective it is still positive.


Except that the home users typically run what they have at work. It does
provide the potential for a significant shift.