[ale] Huh? Red Hat Returns to Linux Desktop Market

griffisb at bellsouth.net griffisb at bellsouth.net
Tue May 4 20:38:46 EDT 2004


> Well, The Register pointed out what the MSRP truly is:
> 
> "Red Hat Desktop includes the Mozilla browser, OpenOffice and an Evolution 
> email client.
> "It will be available for download in mid-May and is aimed at academic, 
> enterprise and government clients. Customers pay $2,500 per year for ten 
> Red Hat desktops, ten desktop management modules, one Red Hat proxy server 
> and some support. It joins Novell/SUSE in backing Linux for the desktop."
> 
> To me that seems like expensive "tech support."
> 

Dang, I'd do 10 Debian Unstable installs with Mozilla browser, OpenOffice and KMail (Evolution gave me headaches under KDE, lol) cheeeeep. Do the proxy server, too.   Or maybe learn Fedora Core. Errrr, maybe just refer folks to James Kinney over at Localnetsolutions. 



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