Details on next redhat releases: http://www.computerwire.info/brnews/448B94DB6CEB5D0B80256D4B003C37ED Red Hat's attack on the enterprise desktop market is due for launch in September or October with the delivery of the Red Hat Linux Desktop. The company's president of international operations, Alex Pinchev, said the product is being launched in response to customer demand and will be priced to give Microsoft a run for its money in terms of total cost of ownership. "Our target market is the enterprise desktop," he said. "It's probably a tougher market competitively than the server market and the price level will probably not be much lower than Windows, but the cost saving will be in the combined cost of management and support." Pinchev said that Windows typically costs $300 per desktop, including license and management costs, while Red Hat's target is $100 per desktop. The company will be helped in reaching this aim by the September/October release of version 3.0 of its Red Hat Enterprise Network systems management service, which will add functionality for the configuration, provisioning and patch management of desktop systems.
