Red Hat abandons desktop home

Yesterday, the company Red Hat has officially refused to continue the development of “desktop” Linux distributions for private use. According to the management company in the server market to work much easier and you can earn real money, while at the home desktop PC market is very difficult to compete with Windows. The statement said the following: “The market is suffering from the dominance of desktop one dominant developer, and some people still feel that today’s desktop Linux system simply does not provide a practical alternative.” According to experts, Care with Red Hat “national” market due to the change of leadership in the company. The fact is that the new director, Jim Whitehurst set the ambitious task to bring the Red Hat earnings up to $ 1 billion a year and now intends to make every effort to achieve this goal, albeit with some sacrifices.

16 April 2008 | , , , company, development, hat, red, red hat, view

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