Article on linux desktop "industry"

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

It seems that there is money to be made when it comes to the Linux
desktop.  But how are they making it?  Who are its clients?  What kind
of jobs do these clients want them to do.

GNOME has at least a couple of businesses that are making money off of
GNOME or desktop technology.  We have:

* Imendio
* OpenHand
* Fluendo
* Nokia
* Van Hoof's consulting company
* Imeem (?)
* Rpath (?)
* TheKompany
* Nexenta

The idea of the article is to showcase that these people are making
money from the desktop and there are indications of a growing market
for desktops.

This might be a good multi-person article to work on for those
of you with spare time and try to figure out the answers to the
question above.

We should first discuss a little about how the article should be
structured and what we want it to say  for those who are interested.
Then we can go off and do the research.

Specifically, I think Imendio and OpenHand are the more interesting
ones.

sri

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