Wow great news, this is why I use RH and take punishment from the Gentoo/slack/debian zealots. RH makes all the moves. On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:29:43 -0600 (MDT) Lucas Albers <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
