“The recent growth of Linux in so many areas of IT has spawned
an ancillary growth in another arena–and, no, it’s not the
litigation industry.“Instead, a more product-based side business has sprouted up
around Linux deployment: the appliance industry.“The reasons for this growth of appliances has a number of
factors contributing to it. Appliances address the concerns
(technical, business, or social) of those IT managers who, for
whatever reason, do not want to implement a software-based Linux
solution in their organization. When this resistance is met, the
more creative solutions providers are shifting to a appliance-based
product line to compliment their software solutions. One recent
example of this, in the security channel is the new appliance
product line from Astaro…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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