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Red Hat Poised to Beat the Street in Upcoming Report

Just ten years ago Scott McNeally was gloating about Linux eating Microsoft's lunch. Well, it ate his and IBM finally appears as a vulture descending upon the still moving carcass. In the mean time, Red Hat has continue to steadily gain market share and expand its product offering, even recently working through a technology arrangement with Microsoft. Red Hat's open source, subscription-based business model is better for both the vendor and customer. For the vendor, it stabilizes the revenue stream. No more need to hoist upon the customer releases just to boost numbers. For the customer, large upfront costs are avoided, spending become predictable and vendor lock-in is avoided.

Why Is Red Hat Abandoning Linux for PCs?

Why get your derriere kicked competing for a lost cause when you can focus resources on the server market where the field has proven to be white and already to harvest. I view this as a move to focus development and marketing resources on the greatest potential for revenue and market share growth by the new CEO. I also agree with "Def" on Ubuntu. If Ubuntu succeeds, Red Hat is in position to monitize Ubuntu client subscriptions for existing Red Hat customers (e.g. do what Oracle tried to do to Red Hat, only succeed).