Novell CEO: Red Hat Never in Desktop Linux
The Linux business is going well for Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL). In its second-quarter report for fiscal 2008 the company reported increased Linux business revenues that helped it post a profit for its overall business.
Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian used the investor call with analysts as an opportunity to land a low blow against Linux rival Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and its desktop Linux business.
Revenue at Novell for the second quarter of 2008 hit $236 million, an incremental gain over the net revenue of $232 million reported for the second fiscal quarter 2007.
Meanwhile Novell reported second quarter 2008 net income of $6 million ($0.02 per share) from continuing operations, which is an improvement of the second quarter 2007 net income loss of $1 million.
During the call Hovsepian responded to a question about how much of Novell's progress is due to Red Hat exiting the desktop market.
"I wouldn't attribute any of it to them exiting the market because technically, they would have had to put a product out there to enter the market, which they never got done," Hovsepian responded.
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*Sigh* Again?
"They [Red Hat] are an edge server strategy company with one product. We have a two-year lead on them for desktops."
--Hovsepian, September 2007
With 'friends' like these, who needs enemies? Does Ron not know about Fedora, which is ahead? Does SUSE really have a x-year lead ? (Hello! GPL, anyone? You can't tread on your suppliers. It's teamwork)