Hey, How 'bout them Red-Hatters!

[Ted Roche]

Has anyone got a clue what Red Hat is promoting with the "Global Desktop?"

Just when I thought we were going to see Fedora Core/Extras united, a
clear unified enterprise message out of Red Hat, they zig again.

"Today Red Hat is announcing the upcoming availability of Red Hat Global
Desktop. Global Desktop breaks through the price and performance
barriers that have prevented many people from realizing the full
benefits of state-of-the-art information technology. Red Hat and
community members around the world recognized the need for a better
solution to serve their local government and small business customers.
This required removing the limitations that traditional desktop
solutions imposed. In response, Red Hat developed the Global Desktop,
which delivers a modern-user experience with an enterprise-class suite
of productivity applications. Red Hat collaborated closely with Intel to
enable the design, support and distribution of Global Desktop to be as
close as possible to the customer. In addition, Red Hat and Intel are
taking advantage of Global Desktop's high performance and minimal
hardware requirements to support a wide range of Intel's current and
future desktop platforms, including the Classmate, Affordable, Community
and Low-Cost PC lines."

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/global_desktop.html

and

http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/14/red-hat-global-desktop/

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com