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eWeek: Linux Report: The Year in Review

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“By 2007, we said one year ago, ‘No one will be fired for
recommending Linux.’ Shortening our own timeline by four years, we
suggest that an IT buyer might already be fired today for failing
to consider Linux. That’s a small step but one of Neil Armstrong
caliber.

“At the end of 2001, Sun’s Linux director, Herb Hinstorff, was
deprecating Linux as an enterprise platform, saying, ‘Users who buy
our systems are free to put Linux on it, but we’re not seeing
demand.’ Before 2002 was out, Sun was shipping its own Linux
distribution, and CEO Scott McNealy was saying that Sun software
would soon be available in open-source and enterprise-supported
versions—a promise fulfilled with LinuxWorld announcements
including Linux versions of Sun ONE Application Server and
Directory Server…”

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