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From the News Desk
Friday, 18. April 2008
Consumer Desktop Linux Market Is a Bad Idea, Says Red Hat
Red Hat, this week, announced via a blog post that it has dropped plans to make a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future- in part because of Microsoft's dominance over the market.
“We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. An explanation: as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers,” Red Hat said on its website.
Last year Red Hat, which makes so-called open-source software, said it was planning to launch a version designed for users of personal computers. Open-source software makes underlying source code freely available to be used or modified. Linux software is widely used on high-end server computers, including those made by Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but has yet to gain wide acceptance in the personal-computer market.
Linux commands only about 1.2 percent of the desktop market in the United States, according to research group Gartner. Red Hat said, however, that it would continue to develop its Enterprise Linux desktop. It also said it has no plans to abandon its Red Hat Global Desktop program. Under RHGD, Red Hat is developing a slimmed-down Linux-based desktop OS designed for low-cost PCs in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
“We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. An explanation: as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers,” Red Hat said on its website.
Last year Red Hat, which makes so-called open-source software, said it was planning to launch a version designed for users of personal computers. Open-source software makes underlying source code freely available to be used or modified. Linux software is widely used on high-end server computers, including those made by Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but has yet to gain wide acceptance in the personal-computer market.
Linux commands only about 1.2 percent of the desktop market in the United States, according to research group Gartner. Red Hat said, however, that it would continue to develop its Enterprise Linux desktop. It also said it has no plans to abandon its Red Hat Global Desktop program. Under RHGD, Red Hat is developing a slimmed-down Linux-based desktop OS designed for low-cost PCs in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
