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Red Hat says no to consumer Linux desktop
News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably.
[April 18, 2008, 15:46]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Microsoft has had a head start in the marketplace, and with getting to know the consumer and what the consumer wants. For the most part, I think he's right. Regardless of software quality, it is easier for low-skilled or no-skilled users to use a...
[November 4, 2003, 19:45]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Funny, Apple makes a consumer ready variant of Unix. And they only have 3% of the market. Why didn't the CEO recommend Apple's OS X instead of their direct competitor's product? Apple also supports digital cameras and USB without issue.
[November 5, 2003, 4:24]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback It just proves the point that anyone who believes that Linux is anywhere near a consumer OS is living in fantasy land. I notice that most, if not all, of the comments are from technophiles or IT professionals.The fact that 'you' set up Linux and...
[November 6, 2003, 23:04]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback However, does anyone really believe that Microsoft is responsible for making Windows a viable consumer OS? To resolve this RedHat needs to forget about supporting every combination of consumer devices and just target a solution for 70% of consumer...
[November 27, 2003, 14:40]
Wyeth Bioinformatics' Research Transformed Using HP and Red Hat Solution
White Papers Wyeth is a global leader in prescription pharmaceutical non-prescription consumer healthcare products and pharmaceuticals for animal health. Wyeth needed to identify a stable, scalable, and flexible architecture to facilitate innovation and meet...
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Yes, it may be in Red Hat's best corporate interest to drop the desktop line and go for the big bucks enterprise market. However- it saddens me to realize that there will be no more Red Hat Linux on the store shelves, in the public eye.
[November 6, 2003, 0:05]
News Burst: Red Hat waits on killer apps for consumers
News Red Hat is in London today pounding out the open source message and promoting its latest "easy-to-install" Red Hat 6.1, but concedes the enterprise will remain its major focus until killer consumer desktop applications open up the home Linux market.
[October 6, 1999, 10:29]
Red Hat's desktop strategy is now based on Windows?
Blog One of the interesting things about yesterday's Red Hat press lunch in London was the emergence of a desktop strategy from the open source giant. As to basing its strategy around Windows, Red Hat now has VDI (virtual desktop) software, which it is...
[September 11, 2008, 9:31]
Red Hat finds home in heart of capitalism
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates once likened the open-source movement to communism, but there was little evidence of that on Tuesday when Linux specialist Red Hat took over the New York Stock Exchange. Red Hat's chief executive Matthew Szulik was on...
[December 12, 2006, 16:31]
Red Hat launches desktop Linux
News And when Red Hat guns for the consumer market, it could well find that competitors such as Lindows, Lycoris and Mandrake already have staked out turf. Red Hat's primary target has been Unix, the operating system on which Linux is based, running on...
[May 4, 2004, 13:35]
Red Hat publishes Fedora 9 preview
News Last week Red Hat quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably.
[April 22, 2008, 14:40]
Red Hat edges ahead of estimates
News Red Hat has been transforming itself to focus chiefly on two areas: converting Unix customers to Linux and helping to create software for "embedded" systems such as network routers or consumer electronics.
[December 19, 2001, 10:45]
Red Hat: Walking the Linux tightrope
News If you want to put us in a box, then the most obvious box is that Red Hat only, exclusively sells and supports open source -- GPL'd software. As the largest stand-alone Linux distribution, Red Hat has had to perfect this balancing act the hard way.
[August 19, 2004, 17:42]
Linux shoot-out: Red Hat 8.0 v SuSE 8.1 review
Reviews Two of the year's most user-friendly Linux distributions -- SuSE Linux 8.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- have closed the gap between Windows and Linux. Early attempts at a consumer Linux distribution (remember Corel Linux?
[December 9, 2002, 9:45]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Well, as far as I'am concerned, Red Hat better not come back later when the consumer market will show some BIG profits because I wil not buy their product. Talking about loyalty to customers.I have been using RED Hat since ver.5 and I always...
[December 3, 2003, 18:25]
Linux community upset by desktop deals
News On Monday, in an expected move, Red Hat said it would stop supporting all consumer versions of Red Hat Linux by the end of April 2004 and only planned to support its business version of the operating system.
[November 5, 2003, 9:00]
Red Hat targets enterprise before snaring consumers
News Red Hat is in London today pounding out the open source message and promoting the latest "easy-to-install" Red Hat 6.1, but says the enterprise will remain its major focus until killer consumer desktop applications open up the home Linux market.
[October 6, 1999, 15:57]
Red Hat UK's favourite software supplier - ISPA awards
News Britain's ISP industry has voted Linux distributor Red Hat as its favourite software supplier. Red Hat received the title of Best Software Supplier by delegates. Vice president of Red Hat Europe, Colin Tenwick, is understandably delighted by the...
[February 17, 2000, 9:17]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback So admit the reality and Hats Off to Red Hat CEO! He might work on the right path to work towards making red hat desktop equal to Apple/MS as he hasnt shown any blind faith. At last there was someone from Linux World itself admitted that Linux is...
[January 7, 2006, 8:33]
