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NewsForge: Red Hat CTO Says Fedora Lets Company ‘Concentrate on the Enterprise’

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 27, 2003

“In a keynote speech Wednesday at the Enterprise Linux Forum,
Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann bluntly stated that today the company’s
‘focus is on the enterprise.’

“Tiemann also said the software world ‘can no longer afford the
folly of proprietary architecture.’

“While Red Hat will now concentrate on building its enterprise
distribution and associated applications, the company will support
the now-independent Fedora Project as, essentially, a replacement
for the old free-to-download user-level Red Hat…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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