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Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support



On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 06:05, Chris Schwan wrote:
> Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on
> Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding expectations for
> corporate users, home users should stick with Windows: "I would say
> that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be
> the right product line," he said. "I would argue that from the
> device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional
> functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view
> that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more."

That little gem seems to have cost their stock value about 12% in one 
day.

Cheers; Leon