It’s reported that Redhat halts plans for comsumer focused Linux. It’s a little surprise and disappointed news.
Last year, the greater china reps of Redhat visited us and recommended their desktop Linux solution to us. The benefits of Linux desktop include lower license cost and zero virus threats and etc. At that time, they told us that many MNCs have begun to adopt desktop Linux.
Taking into the current SaaS wave, in the long run, the value of traditional operating system is shrinking,while the content and web services are ramping up. This is partly the reason why Microsoft is proposing to Yahoo.
Why Redhat stops the desktop Linux?
Today I addressed on TelecomSec 2007 summit at Beijing. My topic is “Security As A Service of telecom operators”. Here is the slides I used.
Actually I began to thinking security value-added services by telecom operators when I worked for China Telecom before 2000. At that time, it’s only an idea, because the focus of management of China Telecom was totally to grow up number of subscribers and the revenue, without much interests to value-added services.
At Telecomsec 2006, just a year ago, I addressed on “Value of Telecom Security “. I do believe it’s time for China telecom operators to roll out security value-added services. Because the growth of subscribers and ARPU have been shrinking. How to grow benefit and improve user loyalty are the pain of telco executives. At the same time, along with the projects of ITSM inside telecom operators, operation maturity and internal governance have been improved a lot, compared against a couple of years ago. Read more…
Nov. 22-23, the annual conference – Telecom Security Summit 2007 will be happening at Jingdu Xinyuan Hotel, Beijing. At this conference, officers and experts from governance, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Netcom, Huawei, IBM, CA and etc. will present on telecom and security topics, covering security management and communication networks, trustworthy networking, identity and authentication, and etc.
As one of the speaker of this summit, I will address on “Security As A Service” at morning, Nov.23. Under this topic, I hope to illustrate what’s the real security requirements of enterprises and how to make it from telecom operator perspective.
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