The Fedora Project was founded in November 2003[7] when Red Hat decided to split Red Hat Linux into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and a community-based operating system, Fedora.[8] Red Hat Professional Workstation was created at this same time with the intention of filling the niche that RHL had once filled but it was created without a certain future.[9] This option quickly fell by the wayside for non-enterprise RHL users in favor of Fedora.