"It seems there is still some confusion out there in terms of the viability of Linux and open source. Are those technologies truly ready for prime time?
"Stan Dolberg: Linux definitely is. Linux as an operating system is now in widespread use. It started in universities and then it proliferated into the scientific and engineering space to support clustering. And now you can buy Oracle on Linux, you can buy SAP on Linux. You can buy all kinds of commercial software on Linux. People are migrating off Windows and Unix and all variants of those to get to the lower cost hardware that you can run Linux on. So there is no question about Linux..."
