[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“If there’s one trend that exemplifies the entire state of the
application-development world, it’s the transformation of Linux
from a curiosity to a core competency. And in the process, Linux
has gone from an open-systems destination to a solution providers’
competitive operating-system weapon of choice with which to design,
build and deploy applications and solutions.“We aren’t just talking simple Apache Web servers and Dell boxes
running Red Hat, but an entire next generation of applications that
takes Java, Web services and Internet infrastructure as a given and
builds new and exciting businesses on top of all of that. Almost
without having been noticed, Linux has become essential for
building these applications. It is found more often as the core
technology from the smallest and newest start-ups to the more
established solution providers. What all of these folks have in
common is the need to be agile to find and fill particular niches
quickly…”