“… Linux — the renegade operating system that is among the
hottest topics in Silicon Valley — is also making its way into the
most serious bastion of computing, the supercomputing world.”
“Linux has been catching on among some corporations and Internet
service providers as a reliable system to run Web servers or e-mail
servers.”
“Several high-performance computing centers, universities and
government laboratories are also looking at Linux, inspired by its
low cost, its development model of sharing software code and its
closeness to Unix …”