Novell CEO Disses Embrace of Desktop Linux Apr 19, 2008, 00 :00 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (6635 reads) (Other stories by Kenneth Hess)
"When he took the reins almost two years ago, new Novell President and CEO Ronald Hovsepian, was going to lead the charge in driving the Linux acceptance and conversion. Recently he said that the Desktop Linux market, in the next 3 to 5 years, is mainly enterprise-related and that the consumer market will take longer to develop.
"While acceptance and conversion to Desktop Linux may occur more slowly in the U.S. than in other parts of the world, I think it sends a negative message for the CEO of a company that produces a product to make such a statement about that product..."
