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Red Hat Summit: “The Desktop Paradigm is Dead”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2007

“You have to wonder what the heck Red Hat is thinking when CTO
and VP of Engineering Brian Stevens says to the keynote attendees
‘we believe the desktop paradigm is dead.’

:Stevens made that public statement in response to a question
from eWeek’s Peter Galli, who must have tracked Stevens down as the
reception last night after I ran into Galli as I was leaving the
reception. Peter’s a good journalist, and asked a good question:
‘when is Red Hat going to move to the desktop…?'”

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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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