Internet Week: Linux Swims Upstream | Linux Today

Internet Week: Linux Swims Upstream

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 12, 1999

“Linux, long overlooked by IT organizations and trivialized by
competitors, is wielding new clout as an enterprise operating
system.

“Linux vendors are adding enterprise features to the
open-source software, including network configuration tools and
failover clustering.
Sun Microsystems, meanwhile, is paying
closer attention to Linux. Sun plans to take a page from the Linux
community’s playbook and make the source code of its competing
Solaris OS available to the public.”

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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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