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Enterprise Linux Today: Red Hat raises the Linux standard

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2000

“Enterprise customers don’t want to know about technology.
They’d rather use pen and ink. They use technology because they can
do things with it that they can’t do with pen and ink. This is very
specifically what the Red Hat Network is all about….”

“What will be the key driver for Linux adoption by large
enterprises?”

“Linux, according to researcher IDC, represented 24 per cent of
all new server installs last year. It’s the only server OS
[operating system] that had a growing market share over the last
two years, and its market share has been doubling. It’s taken all
the growth and market share Windows NT used to enjoy at the expense
of the Unix.”

“What are people using this stuff for? The answer is the killer
apps that have been driving our growth are all the internet
applications. When you ask what is the future going to be, the
future of killer apps is all going to be internet-based. They are
all going to incorporate Apache web-serving technology. They are
all going to incorporate Mozilla browsing technology.

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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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