:CNET News: Open-Source Shifts Spell an End for UnitedLinux
CNET News: Open-Source Shifts Spell an End for UnitedLinux Jan 27, 2004, 14 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6646 reads) (Other stories by Stephen Shankland)
"UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead.
"'The legal entity exists, but I shut the lights out,' former UnitedLinux general manager Paula Hunter said in an interview Thursday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. Hunter is now channeling her Linux collaboration energies into a new job: director of business development on the East Coast for the Open Source Development Labs.
"The shutdown marks the end of an ambitious effort to attract more hardware and software partners, standardize Linux, and boost research and development. Instead, it was OSDL--a more neutral coalition in the Linux industry and the employer of Linux leader Linus Torvalds--that succeeded where UnitedLinux failed..."
