| Two commercial Linux distros will dominate, Novell CEO says |
Mar. 22, 2006
Novell CEO Jack Messman expects the commercial Linux operating system market to be reduced to two dominant suppliers within three to five years -- Novell and Red Hat -- Novell confirmed Wednesday.
Messman told UK-based VNUnet.com that he believes the current plethora of Linux operating systems could not last in the corporate environment because of the development costs of designing hardware and software to take advantage of them.
"Because of the costs of software and hardware development you'll find two major open source operating systems left in a few years: Red Hat and Novell," he reportedly said.
Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry told DesktopLinux.com that this is not a new topic Messman has brought up.
"He's been talking about this with a lot of people for a while," Lowry said. "He's just repeating the argument that having two large Linux distros is probably best for the industry, and that (hardware and software) support in the corporate world for dozens of others isn't likely to be realistic over time.
"People aren't anxious to see a repeat of the 'Unix wars' of a few years ago," Lowry said.
You can read the entire VNUnet.com story here.
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