“You may not plan to deploy Linux on your network, but that
doesn’t mean that your company’s users won’t sneak it in. As the
operating system makes inroads in the enterprise, you need to
decide whether you want it on your network before a renegade user
brings it in unnoticed.”
“If you discover Linux on the network should you treat it
like any other application added without your control, or welcome
it into your overall IT plan?”
“The answer depends on whom you ask. Some readers
Network World interviewed were starkly intolerant; others were more
forgiving. In many cases, IT managers dismissed any incursion of
Linux as just that – a hostile takeover of the network that
shouldn’t be tolerated.”