One consultant focused on the open-source services market said he sees opportunity for all three vendors on the desktop.
"I don't think anyone will ever own the Linux desktop market as there is a lot of scope for vertical-market-specific versions of Linux on the desktop, for example, call center vs. retail vs. brokerage [interfaces]," said Chris Maresca, senior partner at Olliance Group, a Linux consultancy in Palo Alto, Calif.
One Sun partner said Sun's Enterprise Java Desktop has grabbed the early lead, adding that he sees little demand for desktop offerings from Novell SUSE or Red Hat. "I see significantly less demand for either of those client-side Linux flavors," said Marc Maselli, CEO of Back Bay Technologies, a Boston-area Sun partner that recently built a service offering on a Linux desktop as an alternative to Windows and Office. "While Sun's JDS product is not anything new or different, they have generated interest and demand by simply packaging everything together and then supporting all of the tools and products. Red Hat and Novell aren't there yet."
Red Hat's consulting services group will handle much of the desktop services work, but the company is working with a select group of systems integrators and will build up the list of integrators over the next six months.
Article appears courtesy of CRN.
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