Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 5th Oct 2005 07:42 UTC
Linspire Linspire will release its first enterprise desktop product, "Linspire Professional," by the end of this year, CTO Tom Welch told DesktopLinux.com Tuesday.
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Linspire has their work cut out for them
by ckknight on Wed 5th Oct 2005 11:49 UTC
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Linspire seems to be a reasonable desktop for workstations, but I really doubt that companies will put much faith in it. Red Hat has been part of the Linux enterprise for God knows how long and Novell had serious stake in enterprise solutions before they acquired Suse and Ximian. This reliability is what is important for the enterprise. Who knows where Linspire will be even 3 years from now? Red Hat will still be around, even if it has a smaller market share and Suse will certainly be around.

IBM is backing both Red Hat and Novell; I really doubt that they'll be in the mood for helping a promising, albeit two-bit company.