“We examine Red Hat’s prospects for success in the Linux market
and why its future success is not a foregone conclusion, despite
the successful IPO.”
“Red Hat will not meet the Linux community’s expectations of
overturning Microsoft’s dominance and becoming a billion-dollar
software company by 2004…”
“From 2002, Windows 2000 will have the critical mass,
improved functionality and scalable 64-bit OS for IA-64 necessary
to reduce the market aura surrounding Linux…”
“Red Hat’s greatest success through 2002 will be in speeding the
demise of non-top-tier Unix variants…”