Re: Article on linux desktop "industry"

[Ken VanDine <ken vandine org>]

This would be a very interesting article, let me clear one thing up.
rPath doesn't actually make money from GNOME development, however rPath
does ship GNOME as the default desktop as well as provide tools to make
it very easy to maintain GNOME packages.  Using these tools I can update
all the GNOME packages to the latest source version in a matter of
minutes.  Then it is simply a matter of compiling into the repository.
I can literally stuff this into a nice for loop and let it run
unattended.  This is how I have been able to get Foresight distro
releases out on GNOME release day.  So like I said, we don't really do
GNOME development but we are a tools company that eases distribution.  

Thanks,
--Ken

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:40 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> 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
>