This week Red Hat confirmed they were not targeting the desktop, focusing entirely on the server opportunity. Meanwhile Novell purchased SuSE for $210 million and re-emphasized their enterprise strategy. Press accounts cited these as negative indicators for Desktop Linux.
This would be like predicting the demise of professional baseball after Michael Jordan retired from baseball to return to the NBA. Jordan was a phenomenal basketball player but a much less inspiring baseball player. Similarly, Red Hat and SuSE's real contribution has been to servers, not the desktop.
The facts: Registered LindowsOS users jumped 30% in the last two months alone. Walmart sells LindowsOS computers starting at $199. Lindows.com has over 3,000 resellers in dozens of countries. We have over 300 OEM builders worldwide. Desktop Linux has unstoppable momentum.
Michael Robertson, Lindows.com
