Just to give you some background... Since 1996 Red Hat has been marketing and selling CDE on Linux. This CDE came from TriTeal Corporation (www.triteal.com) - a leading desktop software company. TriTeal is the only non-OS vendor that markets and sells CDE (called TED or TriTeal Enterprise Desktop), and we support it on many UNIX platforms (currently Sun OS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and IRIX). In 1996, we entered an agreement with Red Hat whereby they would be the sole supplier of TED for Linux. As many of you know, in September Red Hat announced that Netscape and Intel were taking equity positions in Red Hat. Also, within this month all commercial products that Red Hat sold were dropped. The leading ones were TED and Applix. They were dropped for different reasons. On September 25, 1998 Red Hat announced that they were dropping their CDE product (TED) because of a "security hole". They cited the following CERT: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.11.tooltalk.html In actuality, TriTeal and Red Hat were in discussions about fixing this CERT, and updating the product to a more current version. But, instead they decided to drop the product. In my opinion I think they wanted to remain an open source product - and thus dropped both TED and Applix. Since this time TriTeal has been evaluating a business plan for this new market. We are nearing the end of our analysis and expect to have a formal announcement within the next two weeks. If you have any comments or suggestions before then, feel free to email me at carneyat_private Thanks for your patience, Susan Carney TED Product Manager carneyat_private
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