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ComputerWeekly: Linux Woos Unix Users

By Todd R. Weiss

“As Linux continues to gain more of the high-powered features
needed in business computing it is becoming a more viable
alternative for IT departments investigating a migration away from
Unix.

“Linux kernel 2.6, due for release in the fourth quarter, will
yield more features that are of value to corporate IT managers.

“Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, said in an e-mail that
the main new kernel features for enterprise applications will be
‘the usual scalability stuff, ie, much better behavior across a lot
of loads over lots of CPUs and huge amounts of memory…'”


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