Red Hat Begs To Clarify Its Desktop Position
In the last 36 hours – thanks to a posting on one of its blogs – Red Hat has gotten itself in a pretty mess over whether it’s in or out of the desktop market, with the influential Wall Street Journal, among others, reporting that “Red Hat Abandons PC Plan.”
Well, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens says that’s not exactly true.
He’s ready to concede that Red Hat, which has already canceled a couple of coming-out parties for its so-called Red Hat Global Desktop (RHGD), hasn’t a clue when the widgetry will debut – or, in fact, if it ever will.
It all depends, he says, on whether the commitments it got a year ago from Intel white box channels in emerging countries hold and whether everybody agrees on pricing and these resellers and integrators sign term sheets.
Brian says he will be “shocked” if Red Hat doesn’t get the commitments for millions of systems – and hence the go-ahead – but that the process will take a long time. Collecting signatures is apparently hard.
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