Our partners are telling us that their mid-market customers want to deploy open source, but that they need a packaged Linux solution more tailored to their needs. |
There's an increasing market pressure that they [Microsoft] are inflicting on our partners' marketing dollars that are perceived to be at risk if they begin to work with other vendors. |
This new offering delivers a compelling, easy to deploy solution that gives small and medium sized businesses a boost by providing the technology, skills and support they need to drive real business value from open source. |
What we're going to really try to do is position ourselves as the enterprise play in the marketplace. The way we accomplish that is by having the binary compatibles inside the server version all the way to the desktop, so no matter where the customer wants to use Linux, they're going to have one common code base. |