mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...

Posted Jan 7, 2004 14:25 UTC (Wed) by jdub (guest, #27)
In reply to: mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who... by rjw
Parent article: Red Hat borrows $500 million

Red Hat do *not* have disdain for the Linux desktop market these days at all. Far from it. They ship an enterprise desktop release (RHEL WS). What Szulik said in his horribly misinterpreted comments is that the Linux desktop is not necessarily appropriate for consumer users at this stage, but that they are aggressively targeting the enterprise desktop space. I fully agree with him, and I am deeply involved with The GNOME Project. It is very, very sensible for us to look at the desktop space objectively, aim at the right targets, and not pimp ourselves up to something we haven't achieved yet. We *are* getting there, which Szulik also said.

mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...

Posted Jan 7, 2004 16:25 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] (1 responses)

But the enterprise desktop probably doesn't need accelerated 3D video all
that much, and the free driver is perfectly fine for 2D.

mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...

Posted Jan 7, 2004 20:20 UTC (Wed) by wcooley (guest, #1233) [Link]

It does if you're using it where you'd have used an SGI 5 years ago... Although it's certainly true this is a pretty small corner of the enterprise market.