OSNews: Havoc Pennington: Linux has its Nails on UNIX’s Coffin

“1. Looking Red Hat’s recent press releases and web site
lately, it reveals a new, stronger effort to shift focus further
into the Enterprise and leaving Red Hat Linux to the hands of the
community for the home/desktop market while leaves a ‘hole’ in the
previous target of Red Hat at the ‘Corporate Desktop market.’ The
new Red Hat Linux might sound like ‘power to the people,’ but to me
sounds like an action that will have consequences (good & bad)
in the quality, testing, development of what we got to know as your
‘corporate/desktop’ product. Given the fact that Red Hat is the No1
Linux distribution on the planet, do you think that this new
direction will slow down the Linux penetration to the desktop
market?

“Havoc Pennington: In my view it’s a mistake to create
an ‘Enterprise vs. Desktop’ contrast; these are largely separate
dimensions. There are enterprise desktops, enterprise servers,
consumer desktops, and consumer servers. Quite possibly small
business desktops and servers are another category in between.

“I don’t think we’ll see a slowdown in Linux penetration into
the desktop market. In fact I hope to see it speed up. Today there
are many large software companies making investments in the Linux
desktop…”

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