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Red Hat and the Linux Desktop 2008

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Practical Technology; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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Red Hat has a desktop Linux plan. It’s just not the same desktop Linux plans that everyone else has. As Jim Whitehurst told me in an informal gathering of Red Hat executives and press, “There are companies that sell hundreds of products for millions of dollars and there are companies that sell millions of products for hundreds of dollars. Guess which kind of company Red Hat is?”

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Steven_Rosenber ·
Red Hat is trying to leverage its lucrative server business to gain a bit of the not-so-lucrative desktop market with the reason being that it must counter Ubuntu's leveraging of its own not-so-lucrative desktop market to gain a potentially lucrative server business.

In other words, if Ubuntu can use its popularity on the desktop to drive server revenue, Red Hat better have its own desktop strategy to keep current customers in the Red Hat fold. And Fedora doesn't cut it in the enterprise, where long-term support is the rule.

That's my theory, anyway.

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