:SearchOpenSource: Centeris CEO: Managing Linux Servers in a Windows World
SearchOpenSource: Centeris CEO: Managing Linux Servers in a Windows World Aug 10, 2006, 12 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4579 reads) (Other stories by Jack Loftus)
"SearchOpenSource.com: What's the landscape looking like today for cross-platform management?
"Barry Crist: Since about two years ago the landscape has changed. Windows is still dominant, with Exchange and Active Directory. Those technologies are really unchallenged. But what has changed is Linux is now very mainstream in the SMB market, and that was not the case two years ago. We have seen it come in at the networking edge, on the firewall, maybe with something like an Asterisk phone system. But then you have seen it start to expand -- and a lot of times, that has been done absent from corporate directive. It may have entered via a very specific application, like a Linux content management system in support of a Windows system..."
