[ Thanks to Geoff
Sanders for this link. ]
“It wasn’t so long ago: 1999 and 2000 saw a great deal
of innovation and interest, not to mention hype, about the Linux
open-source operating system, and by extension, open-source
software in general. This year the focus has been more on other
technologies, such as application servers, portals, distributed
component models and Web services. Does anyone still care about
Linux? And if so, why the seemingly deafening silence?According to George Weiss, vice president of servers and storage
for Gartner Inc., and Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of systems
software for International Data Corp., the reason for the silence
is that the time for media hype has passed and the time for the
heads-down work of deployment and implementation has begun. In
other words, the hype honeymoon is over.Kusnetzky said, ‘If you stop and look at the broader picture, in
many cases Linux has gone from a novelty to something that people
are starting to deploy certain types of software solutions on. It’s
the deployment that’s quiet, but ultimately more important than the
noise.'”