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Intelligent Enterprise: Linux Buoyed by an Ocean of Support

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 17, 1999

Thanks to Ernest
Pecounis
for this link.

“More and more ports are opening for the open-source Unix.”

“At Giga Information Group’s Middleware Choices II conference on
February 25 in Orlando, Fl., I heard a talk by an IT person who had
just implemented a new Web-based system. His remark that he wished
he had used Linux and Apache instead of Microsoft NT earned him
applause from the hundred-plus people in his audience.

“As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room with a new laptop
running Windows 98. I can barely connect to my email because the
screen keeps going blank or flickering, and the connection breaks
often…”

Complete
story
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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