Datamation: Linux Gains Legitimacy in the Enterprise

“Look at the list of names among Datamation Product of
the Year 2001 Award winners and you’ll see companies long familiar
to enterprise IT executives — Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dell,
Palm, Compaq.

But it’s the appearance on this year’s list of one relative
upstart — Red Hat — that underscores the major shift under way in
the enterprise. Red Hat, maker of the most successful commercial
version of open-source operating system software, unseated
Microsoft to win in Datamation’s Network and Systems Software
category.

Datamation readers gave Red Hat Linux 7.2 more than twice as
many votes than the runner-up in its category, Macromedia’s JRun
Server 3.1. Last year’s winner in this category was Microsoft’s
Windows 2000 Advanced Server.”

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