-----Original Message----- From: Marcus Moeller <mail(a)marcus-moeller.de&gt; Subj: desktop relevance Date: Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:02 pm Size: 1K To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base&lt;fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com&gt; Good Evening, I was a bit disappointed to read the interview with Jim Whitehurst on InfoWorld where he talked about (Red Hat's) Linux desktop's relevance. On the one hand I agree with him that desktops will move more and more to hosted applications or virtual frameworks. But besides that Red Hat already offers a gread desktop product with a large userbase: Fedora. Also web based components will be more and more integrated into traditional desktop products. Please remember that there are still a lot of people out there using old versions of Windows, too. These also want to take part in the online future. So there will be backports and browser plugins. And note: Fedora does offer all of that great features, today. But as InfoWorld is a traditionally business-oriented netmag the focus was on 'making money with Linux desktops' I can somewhat understand his position. You can earn more money with services and solutions. I am just disappointed that it has not been clearly stated that the best way to keep up on that road is to use free components and to improve the (free) Linux desktop experience. Best Regards Marcus -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list Hi Marcus, I am confused. It reads like your saying Fedora "is" Redhat. I thought it was a seperate distribution much like CentOS is seperate. -- Kam http://kamsalisbury.com GPG key: FAF1751E