[ Thanks to Bryan
Campbell for this link. ]
“You need one more decision on your desk, right? One more of
those CIO issues that go beyond technology into the messy realms of
people and politics and philosophy. Well, it will be hard to escape
this one: open source software—in particular, the operating
system known as Linux. Created by Helsinki University student Linus
Torvalds in 1991, and developed and still maintained over the
Internet by thousands of hackers worldwide, Linux is now said to
have the fastest market growth rate of any operating system in the
world. Moreover, chances are good that even if you’ve never
officially signed off on Linux, someone in your shop is
experimenting with it right under your nose.“To get a better idea of what this means for CIOs, CIO
Insight Deputy Editor Terry A. Kirkpatrick recently convened a
roundtable of nine experts to chat about it—corporate IT
execs who have deployed Linux, analysts who have studied it, and
vendors of both open and proprietary software…”