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Wired: Linux Feels the Corporate Love

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 15, 2002

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“For one moment, it seemed that almost everyone at LinuxWorld
wanted to be Sergey Brin.

“Sure, Brin’s status as co-founder and president of Geek-beloved
search engine Google had something to do with it. But what really
pushed the crowds who gathered to hear Brin’s keynote at LinuxWorld
right over the edge was Brin’s statement that Google is powered by
the world’s largest commercial Linux cluster.

“Right then and there, almost everyone in the audience suddenly
and clearly understood the meaning of ‘covet…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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