Red Hat Eyes the Small-Business Desktop
While the complete details of Red Hat's plans for Linux desktops remain unclear at this point, Red Hat's latest platform release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5), did come with an updated Enterprise Desktop, which might serve as the foundation for a new small-business version or a version for consumers.
With Linux having become a big player in the server and data-center markets, the Linux frontier still remains the desktop. Linux mainstay Red Hat has said that it is planning a new, packaged Linux solution to better tackle that frontier.
The move comes in part as a competing strategy to Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform. Enterprise 10, which was launched in the summer of 2006, included the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) as well as the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. A service pack for Novell's SLED is expected to be released soon. With SLED, Novell is concentrating on signing enterprise customers, such as a reported 20,000 desktops at Peugeot Citroen.
Red Hat officials have said that the company's new desktop offering, which will be announced in the next few months, will target small- and medium-sized businesses.
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