Red Hat: Linux Served at Vertical Data Center Dinner Tables
Feb 26, 2003, 13:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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"Major Linux vendors like Red Hat are finding success
penetrating data centers in vertical markets like the financial
industry. Financials often grow their own applications in-house and
it's easier to port those C and C++ programs and entire solution
stacks to Linux in vertical markets. That said, there are still
frontiers Linux needs to conquer, according to Red Hat executive
Mark de Visser, who addresses management of open-source deployments
and common questions enterprises have about Linux in part two of
this question-and-answer interview...
"Is Linux finding more success in specific vertical
markets?
"de Visser: One inhibitor to adoption has been
that when companies look at the solution stack [operating system,
middleware, database, applications] they have built on Solaris, for
example, and they question whether they are going to be able to
migrate the whole solution stack to Linux. Because migrating 90% of
that solution stack is not good enough. So, that's one of the
reasons we have to be smart about the industries to pursue..."
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