First announced at the 2007 Summit users conference, RHGD was then expected to ship a few months later. "The technology side of the product is complete," according to a blog posting which slid quietly on to Red Hat's Web site this week. "[But] there have been a number of business issues that have conspired to delay the product for almost a year," interjected the anonymous blogger, about midway through a more generic update on "What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems?" Indeed, some of the contributing factors listed in Red Hat's blog are unarguably business-related, including market changes and "start-up delays with resellers." RHGD, by the way, is supposed to be supplied by Intel channel partners in these emerging markets. Others reasons mentioned, though, lean to the technical side, including hardware changes, "multimedia codec licensing knotholes," and "getting the design and delivery of appropriate services nailed down."