“Apart from the legion of Linux product announcements that came
out of last week’s Linux World, the event marked a rite of passage
for the free OS. With about 100 exhibits, the show at the Jacob
Javits Convention Center-the third in a little more than a year-had
about doubled in size from the previous one….”
“Just two years ago at these shows, all you would have seen
was die-hard programmers. The attitude today tends to be more
toward the corporate developers,” observed Richard J.
Sullivan, vice president of integrated solutions marketing in IBM
Corp.’s Software Solutions Division, who was there to announce new
Linux product offerings.”