PC Magazine: Will 2006 Be Linux's Year? | Linux Today

PC Magazine: Will 2006 Be Linux’s Year?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2005

“Will Linux finally live up to its potential next year? It’s
tempting simply to say no. Linux continues to experience growing
pains as it struggles to catch up with Microsoft and Apple on
desktop computers. It has, however, made significant progress in
some areas not readily apparent to consumers. To answer the
question fairly, we must look at all the OS’s applications.

“Linux’s traditional stronghold has been on servers, especially
in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/ Python)
implementations…”

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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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