“At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Thursday, VA Linux
president and CEO Larry Augustin unveiled a series of initiatives
with Oracle Corp. and demonstrated Oracle’s E-Business Suite
optimized for and running on VA Linux’s distribution.”
“Projecting that the Linux market will grow to $75 billion
by 2004, Augustin said the availability of database, e-commerce,
and enterprise productivity applications such as Oracle’s
E-Business Suite, Oracle 8i, Brave New World’s Symphero e-commerce
platform, and VA Linux’s own SourceForge is closing the gap in the
Linux applications portfolio.”
“The convergence of advancements in the Linux kernel and
availability of line-of-business apps is making IT departments–and
all businesses–more open to a Windows alternative, Augustin said.
“The operating system environment out there is changing,” he said,
adding that 56 percent of IT managers in Global 2000 companies are
using open-source software today.”