[CS-FSLUG] OT: Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat?

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 1:08 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> I don't think Red Hat is in much of a position to take the desktop
> Linux market, they are more workstation oriented. If you want to see
> what I mean try using something like Lycoris or Ark, keeping in mind
> that Ark and Lycoris haven't yet had the funding of Red Hat and Ark is
> still in need of some serious debugging but when they have properly
> matured they will be much better.
>
> By the time a mass migration to Linux happens I think distributions
> like Ark, Lycoris, Ubuntu and many of the other smaller ones will gain
> a lot while Mandrake, Red Hat and SUSE will for the most part only get
> the commercial customers. Thats just my opinion though.

True.......opinion is like fannies...we all have them. ;) And, my opinion is 
worth any more, but I do disagree. SUSE IS gaining VERY FAST on the desktop 
market. In fact, I have no doubt that it is #1 and if not, will be soon. 
Novell is in a very good position to cover the server, workstation, and 
desktop markets.

Fred

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