InfoWorld: Open Source’s New Target: Systems Management

“When we look back at the early milestones of Linux’s success in
enterprise, one thing really sticks out to me: the value
proposition was clear from the onset. A free operating system
equaled tremendous cost saving potential… that was enough to
capture the imagination of enterprise developers, and the
‘community’ snowballed from the very clear economic implications of
the technology.

“With Grid Computing, and Open Source Grid Computing in
particular, it’s still unclear to the enterprise development
community exactly what the upside is, what exactly the technology
is going to displace, and what the upside is to contributing
code…”

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