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    • Why Is Red Hat Abandoning Linux for PCs? [view article]
      Redhat just might not be ready to deal with hundreds of phone calls a day from people needing help setting up their printer and such. Better work to that slowly through corporate users that have an IT department to help them. Their current desktop offering has everything a business user might need, including (with a little help from CodeWeavers cxoffice) the ability to run the corporate dominant MS-Office 2003. Corporations are much more likely to be willing to pay for an operating system that comes with stability and support, while home users are more attracted to "free". Once one is used to using Redhat linux desktop at work, one just might want to run the same thing at home (that's how it happened with me, at least). Be patient, Redhat management just might have a plan... Apr 21 03:59 PM
    • Windows Collapsing Under Its Own Weight - Gartner [view article]
      It is a case of Disruptive Technologies 101 - Take a class from Clayton Christensen. The only way Microsoft is going to survive in the world of open source, internet and virtualization applications is if they have a small team of bright people in the basement working on something even better. Apr 15 05:49 PM
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