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Red Hat: no desktop products comingRed Hat: no desktop products comingPosted Apr 17, 2008 17:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming
RedHat got into the corporate servers due to the fact that the sysadmins were running it on their desktops. they seem to have forgotten this fact, but it also may be that they are now a big enough name to survive without that foot in the door. but they leave the field wide open for someone else to move in and gain a foothold in the datacenter. having multiple distros supported by the big commercial products would be a good thing for Linux, but it may not be as good for RedHat
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Red Hat: no desktop products coming Posted Apr 17, 2008 20:39 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] "RedHat got into the corporate servers due to the fact that the sysadmins were running it on their desktops." And I assume that's part of their justification for continuing to work on Fedora. What they're avoiding for now is "a traditional desktop product for the consumer market". That doesn't exclude non-traditional desktop projects that target particular niches (enthusiasts, in the case of Fedora).
Red Hat: no desktop products coming Posted Apr 17, 2008 23:37 UTC (Thu) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link] Uh, what do you think Fedora (and CentOS to a lesser extent) is for? When I bought my copy of Red Hat 4 back in the day, I did it not because I needed support - but because I would've been running it anyway, and wanted to give a little back. I doubt my $40 made a huge difference in the scheme of things but that's fine. And I'm sure if you gave Red Hat a bag of gold and said "desktop us, right now" they'd happily do so. They simply don't currently see a market for throwing shrinkwrapped boxes on the shelves right now, and I don't blame them.
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