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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

I have to wonder _if_ Mr. Szulik was (or wasn't) paid to go public with that viewpoint.  I'm finding it difficult to believe that hints of this viewpoint didn't surface prior to today.

-Bob-