[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]
“SearchOpenSource.com: What’s the landscape looking like
today for cross-platform management?“Barry Crist: Since about two years ago the
landscape has changed. Windows is still dominant, with Exchange and
Active Directory. Those technologies are really unchallenged. But
what has changed is Linux is now very mainstream in the SMB market,
and that was not the case two years ago. We have seen it come in at
the networking edge, on the firewall, maybe with something like an
Asterisk phone system. But then you have seen it start to expand —
and a lot of times, that has been done absent from corporate
directive. It may have entered via a very specific application,
like a Linux content management system in support of a Windows
system…”