Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 9, 2010 19:09 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results by sgros
Parent article: Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Do they pay anyone for desktop support? More usage of a free distribution isn't a business model.

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 10, 2010 6:14 UTC (Sat) by sgros (guest, #36440) [Link]

They did pay for RHEL on desktop, but now they have in house support for Ubuntu. And even though expenses could be a reason for a switch, RHEL on desktop wasn't so expensive. One of the problems they had was with UMTS cards. Another one with authentication when laptops are away from the company. There were also some other sw components they had to install manually. Also, on Ubuntu they are using hard disk encryption which I don't know if it is supported on RHEL5. In the end, maybe commercial desktop distribution should be somewhere between RHEL and Fedora?

But, this is only my opinion that could be wrong, and probably is, as there could be other factors that influenced this decision I'm not aware of.

Hope this answered your question...