Targeting Microsoft's desktop

摘要

The battle for the desktop is not over. At least according to Novell Inc., IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Red Hat Inc., each of which is working on, or has recently shipped, new products that take aim at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and Office. Novell is concentrating on the enterprise with an offering that will combine the best features of Ximian Desktop and SuSE Linux Desktop, both of which shipped separately last year, in a single Novell desktop due by year's end. Aspects of the Mono Project, the open-source version of Microsoft's .Net Framework, will be added to the desktop, said Novell officials. Novell will also create new applications built on Mono, they said.