Well I know they have shipped desktop for a long time, my point is that Red Hat desktops sucks. They sucked time ago and they will keep sucking unless they move away from the same concept as their server version.
We all know Red Hat is awesome for servers. It's secure, it's stable and it's supported. But desktops is another game. They should focus more on providing a great desktop working with the usual awesome server and virtualization products they have. They have to sell the whole package.
Plus they are probably seeing their maket starting to reduce due to ubuntu giving a nice server with an awesome workstation. Do you know how much business would love to have linux workstations everywhere? Their security will improve tenfold doing nothing, plus with some perks like employees not installing shitty games to pass the time
I still believe that they will not jump on gnome 3 ever. They will introduce unity in Fedora and test the waters with it. They will probably jump on wayland too. The X server is way too old to keep maintaining and it's a security risk.
Also, short term talking in Red Hat timeframes of course
Long term for them is like 30 years, short term is under 10. I mean, they only took like 3 years to bring wireless into Red Hat.
And yes, they have the most developers in the linux world...because they are the biggest company of the linux world. They probably have key developers in every big product out there, it's good for business to do so.
