PCWeek Australia: E-biz fires up Linux | Linux Today

PCWeek Australia: E-biz fires up Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 25, 1999

“An explosion in e-business will raise the popularity of
Linux exponentially, according to developers working with the
operating system…”

“In a recent ZD-Net 10-month trial that compared Caldera
OpenLinux, Red Hat Linux and Windows NT, the NT system crashed
every six weeks taking an average of half an hour to get back up
again. Neither Linux system crashed…”

“Microsoft has done a really good job of convincing people that
rebooting every day is okay, but for people who are in mission
critical environments, that’s not an option.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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