“Less than a day after Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates touted
the robust future of the PC, Red Hat Inc. Chairman Bob Young
announced the platform’s death in a Comdex keynote address here
Monday.“
“Our opportunity is in the killer applications of the 21st
century, not in reinventing the PC platform,” Young said during his
wide ranging speech. “And the killer apps will be Internet
appliances.”
“Young told the packed audience at the Linux Business Expo, a
show held in conjunction with Comdex, that the ease of use and
different form factors that appliances can take on will supplant
the PC.”
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