Novell CEO Disses Embrace of Desktop Linux

Posted by jenwren1010 on Apr 17, 2008 11:02 PM EDT
DaniWeb; By Ken Hess
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If Novell CEO Ronald Hovsepian was the the president of the Dairy Association would he say that he predicts people are going to drink less milk?

Recently he said that the Desktop Linux market, in the next 3 to 5 years, is mainly enterprise-related and that the consumer market will take longer to develop. While acceptance and conversion to Desktop Linux may occur more slowly in the U.S. than in other parts of the world, I think it sends a negative message for the CEO of a company that produces a product to make such a statement about that product.

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everyone is going berserk tuxchick 6 1,411 Apr 19, 2008 8:09 PM
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