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Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Mar 2009 18:53 UTC, submitted by snydeq

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst questioned the relevance of Linux on the desktop, citing several financial and interoperability hurdles to business adoption at a panel on end-users and Linux last night at the OSBC.

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RE: Its easy to understand Red Hat's point-of-view

by de_wizze on Wed 25th Mar 2009 20:31 UTC in reply to "Its easy to understand Red Hat's point-of-view"

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"Maybe, just maybe, their recent interoperability agreement with Microsoft also has something to do with it."

Whether or not it does have something to do with the agreement, I'm sure Microsoft would have no issues with the competition they deem more of a threat than Apple downplaying efforts into their space.

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