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Linux desktops need more than just a pretty face
Novell president and chief operating officer, Ron Hovsepian believes the company’s new Linux desktop, based on Suse Linux 10.0, has made Novell an enterprise player while its competitor Red Hat has been marginalised for ignoring the space.
According to Hovsepian, who is in Australia on a market fact finding tour, focussing heavily on the desktop space has given Novell the jump on its corporate Linux rival Red Hat. Some pundits say that Red Hat has done the right thing by focussing on the profitable areas of the Linux market but Hovsepian disagrees.“Red Hat has really just focussed on being a web services and application services Linux distribution,” says Hovsepian.
“What we’ve really focussed on is being a full enterprise class distribution, with a full support array for the customer. We have a desktop, while they have an open source project called Fedora that lets you download the distribution and that’s it. By contrast, openSuse.org ties it right back into our test and development cycle, which is very different from Fedora. The desktop is just one more example of us building a full enterprise story for the customer.
“To
be very specific, the desktop is critical to what the customer wants to
get done. We believe that the customer wants an enterprise strategy
that helps them run Linux on everything from z series mainframes to
point of service to desktops. In order to claim we’re going to give the
customer an enterprise strategy, we believe desktops have to be a part
of it, thin client, as well as the medium and full client
implementations. The really exciting part is we can do things very
differently because everything we have is in an open source mode and
the desktop is a critical part of the go forward strategy for our
customers.”
According to Hovsepian, within two months we can expect to see a
non-beta full release of the new Novell Suse Linux with the kind of
functionality, plug and play and support that we have come to expect
from Microsoft Windows.
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