Internet World: Linux Suits Up for the Enterprise

“What do companies such as Morgan Stanley, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co., Boeing, and BBDO Interactive have in common? Nothing and a
lot. They’re in completely different industries, but they all use
Linux within their organizations, and that’s startling if one
remembers how recently such a development would have seemed
crazy.

“For a long time, Linux was largely ignored outside of hardcore
IT circles and small-scale application implementations. But the
open-source Linux operating system has grown from a backroom
obsession to a major product offering of Big Blue and others, and
the list of organizations adopting Linux continues to grow. It now
includes entities in places ranging from the remote Icelandic
Energy Authority to the very visible life sciences industry in the
U.S. Europe is a vast field of growth for the technology,
specifically in Germany, where the government has been behind
efforts to find alternatives to proprietary technologies. It wasn’t
that long ago when enterprises weren’t as open to Linux, and there
are still those throughout many businesses who are taking a wait-
and-see approach toward it. Five years ago, if you headed down to
your company’s IT department, you probably wouldn’t have seen Linux
anywhere in deployment. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t
there…”

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