Red Hat says it will skip desktop Linux for consumers and opt, instead, to focus on the enterprise market, with the aim of aligning its desktop offering with its server and middleware. Novell’s CEO, meanwhile, says that consumer desktop Linux will take years. After a three-and-a-half year delay, Google ships Urchin 6 Web analytics server software designed to be installed on customers’ servers rather than offered as a hosted service. Chipmaker AMD’s troubled Quad-Core Opteron is back on track and now shipping in five servers from Dell. And this just might be the year that companies take the next major step in going green, and there’s no better architecture to use as a foundation for that than SOA. Are you ready for green SOA? Technology Industry