CRN interviews Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik: "The desktop is certainly an important area, but when we're inside now speaking to corporations the areas they are trying to solve are around configuration management, patch updates, scheduling, other hard problems that are causing their systems not to perform the way they want. Those are the areas we see as more strategic at this moment in time and of course ultimately, [our strategy] will find its way toward the Red Hat Desktop implementation." Also covered: SCO licensing, Novell's purchase of Ximian, Sun Microsystem's partership with Red Hat and other recent topics of interest.

I'm a little preturbed by RedHat's abandonment of retail editions though. I switched to SuSE 8.2 instead of RedHat as a result of that. I wanted a pro edition distro I could pick up at a local store, and would be around in a couple of years. SuSE I feel has that staying power. I probably would have gone to RedHat but for that.