[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Speakers and attendees at the open source events of Portland’s
InnoTech Conference last week concurred that Linux was at home in
the enterprise, handling heavier database demands and other
workloads and proving itself on a number of platforms. They also
anticipated that Linux would finally hit the desktop in more
significant increments, but not until open source developers deal
with some obvious deficiencies.“Jim Wasko, program manager for the IBM Linux Technology
Center’s strategic alliance, reported that Linux is seeing growth
on a variety of platforms including mainframes at New York’s Marist
College and the U.S. Department of Energy; in enterprises beyond
the edge of the datacenter by Warner Brothers, Ritchie Brothers
Auctioneers, and others…”