On Nov 03 2003, at 14:56, Chris Gehlker was caught saying:
> On Nov 3, 2003, at 2:41 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> 
> >Redhat is not abandoning the desktop market. They are abandoning the
> >consumer market.  I think they realzie that they need to break into
> >the enterprise desktop to keep growing and bitting away at Redmond.
> 
> Now that I have seen more on what they are doing, you are definitely 
> right. they are still very much in the enterprise desktop market. 
> "abandoning" may be a poor word choice as well since apparently they 
> are supporting Fedora. They are just 'abandoning' the consumer market 
> as a market.

Godd point.  I think what they are doing makes a lot of sense and
I hope they are sucessful. Let's be honest, most home users of Linux 
are not going to buy a copy of a distro or get a support contract b/c
that support can be provided by the community. So it makes no business
sense for them to productize, market, and support two different
comercial products instead of just one.

~Deepak


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