[ Thanks to Paul
Godin for this link. ]
“Today in his LinuxWorld keynote, Intel Corporation Vice
President Will Swope said that the opportunity to deploy the Linux
operating system (OS) on critical enterprise servers that run
e-Business data centers is the next major economic frontier for the
software technology.”
“Linux is typically found on “front-end” servers — smaller
one-to-two processor systems that handle Internet and e-mail
traffic in the data centers that power today’s businesses. However,
Linux is typically not found on the larger, mission-critical
“mid-tier” and “back-end” multi-processor servers that serve as the
backbone of these computing centers, and that poses an economic
opportunity for the Linux and open source development
community.”
“Swope outlined a series of steps that are necessary to move
Linux into the mid-tier of data centers, including the
establishment of industry-wide development projects that will
ultimately enhance the OS with enterprise features. He cited the
project to enhance the Linux OS to support 16 64-bit processors
with near-linear performance improvement as one such project. The
multi-company effort is currently underway in the industry’s new,
non-profit $24 million Open Source Development Lab, which opened
last week.”