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Article: Wall Street Rates Red Hat's Desktop Chances.(Prudential)
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- May 17, 2004
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Red Hat's desktop initiative is further along than we appreciate, according to Prudential, which is counting the 4,000 copies of its largely unsung WS workstation software that Red Hat installed at Oracle.
WS, which Red Hat aims at the Unix technical market, is also represented at Pixar and Dreamworks, but it's not the about-to-be- released Red Hat Desktop that's supposed to address a much larger corporate user base, although it's pretty close. The differences between the two are in manageability, security, enhanced user interface and pre-installed third-party packages.
Prudential believes that Red Hat's server leadership "should pave the way to ...