Overheard in the tech blogosphere:

Red Hat

Apr 18 2008   1:22PM GMT

Overheard: Red Hat will not be coming to your desktop



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Red Hat, Linux
red-hat.jpg As a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers. The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today’s Linux desktops simply don’t provide a practical alternative.

Desktop team, What’s Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update

Oct 16 2007   5:34PM GMT

Overheard: Tech acquisitions psychic predictions



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Sun, JBoss, Red Hat, Oracle, IBM
marcfleury.jpg “My money would go on IBM buying SUN at this point. But again, at the end of the day, Sun is a hardware company, despite noise to the contrary by pony-tail boy.”

Marc Fleury, To consolidate or not to consolidate