Okay, it has been about a month since Red Hat said it had no plans to offer a consumer Linux release. Lots of folks went ballistic. The VAR Guy didn’t. Instead, he took some time to digest the news. And now he’s ready to say — definitively — that Red Hat made the right decision. Here are five reasons why Red Hat should ignore pleas for a consumer Linux release.

1. Money: Where is Red Hat going to generate the best profit margins and recurring revenue? The consumer desktop business is cutthroat. Meanwhile, global 2000 companies are willing to pay for ongoing service and support for higher-margin server deployments. That’s Red Hat’s sweet spot. And Red Hat should double down on that market by pushing deeper into applications that complement Linux.

2. Applications: Sure, Microsoft makes a ton of money selling Windows and the Office suite. But there’s no equivalent revenue opportunity in the open source world. Yes, OpenOffice is super hot. But is there really money to be made from open source desktop applications? If so, Red Hat certainly doesn’t own any of them.

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