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“While Linux has come a long way in the past 10 years, I think
it’s safe to say that it hasn’t yet taken over the world–nor has
Linux reached its full potential. Linux continues to become more
mainstream every day–we now see Linux hosting mission-critical
servers in the enterprise, large financial banks run their
financial trading applications on Linux, Linux is even running
manufacturing operations, and Linux is beginning to emerge as a
serious player on the desktop from engineering workstations to
consumer desktops to business desktops.“But now, Linux as an industry is at a tipping point.
Linux has achieved some of the promise that it started out with 20
years ago, but we are not there yet…”
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