Below are general, introductory articles on the Linux operating system that you might find useful.
Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops (2007-03-13 The Wall Street Journal) |
| "Chief
information officers have experienced
the cost savings that Linux has brought
to their server computers, which do narrow
and repetitive tasks such as data storage
and serving up Web sites. Now some CIOs
are taking new interest in installing
Linux on workers' PCs as well, for certain
narrow applications." |
LINK |
The Potential Green Effects of Going Open Source (California Air esources
Board) |
| "Open
Source operating systems such as Linux
do not usually have the regular major
upgrades that are a feature of Windows,
and thus do not have the requirement
that goes with these upgrades for a new
or upgraded computer to run them. This
means that a computer running Linux can
have a significantly longer working life
than an equivalent computer running Windows.
This has the potential to impact significantly
on costs, including purchase of software
and hardware, and indirectly by reducing
business disruption whilst implementing
change and upgrading." |
LINK |
Linux vs. Vista: How Does Security Stack Up? (2007-02-13 LinuxNews) |
| "If
Linux is the clear-cut winner in the
desktop security shoot-out, why have
enterprise users been so slow in migrating
from Windows? The availability of niche
applications in corporate environments
is still the major inhibitor to mainstream
adoption, he noted. However, that situation
could soon change for both corporate
and small-business users. Cherry sees
signs that IT decision makers are considering
the Linux alternative in the face of
the Vista introduction. Many IT managers
are incorporating plans to move their
niche applications to Linux, he disclosed." |
LINK |
Red Hat wins Union Bank of California (2007-01-29 CNET News.com) |
| "The
Union Bank of California is standardizing
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the software
company said Monday. The bank moved away
from AIX, IBM's version of Unix, and
also is testing the waters with Red Hat's
JBoss Java server software and the open-source
MySQL database software." |
LINK |
Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to ... Microsoft's Vista Challenge (2007-01-12
eWeek.com) |
| "eWEEK
Labs believes that either Ubuntu 6.10
or OpenSUSE 10.2 is worthy of replacing
Windows XP as a desktop operating system,
provided the distros support your target
hardware." |
LINK |
Market analyst predicts enterprise Linux surge (2007-01-02 DesktopLinux.com) |
| "Saugatuck
believes that the number of businesses
in early or full deployment of Linux
for mission-critical application workloads
will grow by almost 40 percent between
2007 and 2009 and then shoot up by 80
percent between 2009 and 2011. 'By now
it should be obvious to even the most
casual industry observers that Linux
operating systems -- and open source-based
software in general -- have reached critical
marketplace mass,' the authors said in
the report." |
LINK |
Outlook 2007: Linux and Open Source (2006-12-01 eWeek.com) |
| "Among
all these new Linux releases, there will
be no shortage of new and improved functionality
for platform devotees to consume, but,
since Linux remains somewhat of an outsider
among OS platforms, what's most worth
watching for in 2007 are the new deployment
routes along which the platform will
wend its way toward greater market share." |
LINK |
Oracle to push Red Hat from support chair (2006-10-25 InfoWorld) |
| "One
of the key issues slowing the adoption
of Linux is the lack of "true enterprise support," Ellison said. If a customer has a problem with the Linux kernel, often the bug
is fixed by distributors in future versions
of the operating system, not the current
release the customer is deploying. In
addition, Linux support has tended to
be costly and some users would welcome
IT vendors indemnifying against any potential
lawsuits." |
LINK |
IT services giants wake up to Linux (2006-05-02 vunet.com) |
| "'There
is no longer any doubt that enterprises
are trying to take advantage of the quality,
flexibility and licence cost savings that
open source software offers.'" |
LINK |
The Diffusion and Adoption of Desktop Linux
in Government (2006-04-25 DesktopLinux.com) |
| "Foreword:
This research report by a third-year graduate
student examines the growing use of desktop
Linux among governments in the U.S. and
globally. Drawing on published research
and comments from industry analysts, the
author hypothesizes that desktop Linux
may be nearing a tipping point within government
settings, after which adoption can be expected
to accelerate." |
LINK |
Citigroup buys into open source (2006-04-26 ZDNet UK) |
| "Open
source may not be a wellspring of competitive
advantage, but it allows you to focus your
efforts [on the important parts of your
system],' he said. 'Open source could probably
provide about 99 percent of your code base." |
LINK |
Study: Linux Doesn't Cost More to Manage (2006-04-24 Linux News) |
| "For
similar environments, Linux acquisition
costs can be almost $60,000 less per server
than Windows in software costs alone. Windows
also incurs higher hardware costs. Linux
tends to be more productive, as Linux administrators
tend to manage more servers than Windows
administrators, and Linux systems tend
to handle greater workloads than Windows
systems." |
LINK |
Linux to be top Oracle platform within a year (2006-04-04 Computer Business
Review Online) |
| "By
next year, respondents say those numbers
will change to 44% Linux, 43% Solaris,
followed by 37% Windows Server 2003 and,
not surprisingly, a marked drop to 21%
for Windows 2000. What's interesting is
that the survey implies that migration
to Linux will come, not only from Solaris,
but Windows as well. The rationale for
the shift to Linux is total cost of ownership." |
LINK |
Novell's New CTO Says Linux Desktop Is Ripe for Adoption (2006-02-15 eWEEK) |
| "While,
previously, there was not enough momentum
behind the desktop, the technology is now
better. Corporate IT departments have became
more comfortable with having the right
skills for Linux, and are developing acquisition
policies to bring open source into their
enterprise, he said." |
LINK |
EMA Study Executive Summary (2006-02-13 OSDL) |
| "In
various older studies, Microsoft and some
analysts claimed Linux has a higher Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO) than Windows. They
attributed the difference mainly to higher
system management costs, and concluded
that the higher TCO outweighed the much
lower license and acquisition costs for
Linux. However, in a new study of over
200 Linux enterprises, Enterprise Management
Associates (EMA) found that this perception
is no longer accurate. Sophisticated management
tools now allow Linux management to be
fast, effective, and inexpensive. With
far lower acquisition costs, Linux is now
a cost-effective alternative to Windows." |
LINK |
25 Reasons to Convert to Linux (2006-01-10 Bellevue Linux Users Group) |
| "Businesses,
educational institutions, governmental
agencies and other organizations around
the world are converting their computer
operating systems from Microsoft Windows
to Linux at an increasing pace. They are
likewise converting their application programs
from commercial software to free software
(also referred to as open source software).
There are at least 25 reasons for this
situation, including…" |
LINK |
COCC crows about Oracle on SUSE (2005-12-19 NewsForge) |
| "COCC
has realized many benefits from its adoption
of Linux. For example, it has been able
to afford several more physical servers
to run separate instances of crucial applications,
instead of multiple instances all on one
box. This helps when applying patches,
says Biernet, since it doesn't take the
network down, which means the IT staff
doesn't have to do its work in the middle
of the night or on days off. Not only that,
but the company has reduced its hardware
costs by 40%, even with the increased number
of servers running the databases. And Biernet
says COCC is saving at least $50,000 a
year in software licensing and labor costs
too." |
LINK |
Why customers are flocking to Linux (2005-10-26 AME Info) |
| "It
might be time to look beyond the numbers
to the advantages Linux provides its practitioners
to understand Linux growth. The advantages
of Linux are: Flexibility, Security, Reliability,
Total value and Future value; let us examine
these in turn." |
LINK |
India's Canara Bank to Deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2005-10-17 IT News
Online) |
| "Red
Hat Enterprise Linux will be deployed on
more than 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops
at Canara Bank to provide a robust, secure
and scalable solution for powering the
bank's business critical IT infrastructure." |
LINK |
Bottom Line - IT Gets Fit (2005-07/08 Novell Connection Magazine) |
"...Put
it all together, and Linux has become
the strongest rival that Microsoft has
ever
faced. In servers, researcher IDC predicts
Linux' market share based on unit sales
will rise from 24 percent today to 33
percent in 2007, compared with 59 percent
for Windows—essentially
keeping Microsoft at its current market
share for the next three years and squeezing
its profit margins." That's because, for the first time, Linux is taking a bite out of Windows, not
just the other alternatives, and is forcing
Microsoft to offer discounts to avoid
losing sales
."In a survey of business users by Forrester Research Inc., 52 percent said they
are now replacing Windows servers with
Linux. On the desktop side, IDC sees
the Linux share more than doubling,
from 3 percent today to 6 percent in
2007,
while Windows loses a bit of ground.
IDC expects the total market for Linux
devices and software to jump from $11
billion last year to $35.7 billion
by 2008."
|
LINK |
Linux: A New Kind of Service-Oriented Architecture (2005-09-22 NewsFactor
Network) |
| "Strip
away the hype and hyperbole and there are
two factors driving mainstream businesses
to adopt Linux and other open-source technologies:
drastic reduction of hardware costs by
swapping out expensive servers and fear
of being locked into proprietary software." |
LINK |
Quocirca report: Migrating to Linux on the desktop (2005-09-20 IT Manager's
Journal) |
| "Survey
feedback indicates that many end users feel that Windows does not
make efficient use of hardware. Each new version of Windows forces
a hardware upgrade "which we cannot justify because the amount of useful work done on that hardware
is the same we did on a non-MMX Pentium 100MHz with Windows 95 on
it" according to one user. Stability and reliability are still seen as problems,
even with Windows XP. Licensing costs
and complexity of Windows are seen as issues, particularly amongst
smaller business." |
LINK |
Windows-to-Linux desktop migration tips: Why to switch, how to plan (2005-09-12
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) |
| "The
four basic steps to planning a migration
are choosing a Linux distribution, taking an application inventory,
developing a migration strategy
and identifying user groups." |
LINK |
IBM gets own facts out for Linux v Windows (2005-09-01 Channel Register) |
| "An
IBM-sponsored Robert Frances Group study
found it is 40 per cent cheaper to buy, implement and run an application
server on an x86
server running Linux than on a similar
server running Windows. Robert Frances polled IT executives at
20 mid-sized and large companies
with 250 or more employees." |
LINK |
What's Driving Global Linux Adoption? (2005-08-05 LinuxWorld) |
| "Linux
deployments are taking place at such
a rapid pace it can be difficult to keep up, but the increasing
adoption, based on multiple motivations
depending on region, is compelling evidence
for others who are considering Linux. Linux offers flexibility,
ownership and security at little
cost. With a variety of return on investment
scenarios for government, business and education, Linux is not
only accelerating technological
innovation but also economic and social development
around the globe. " |
LINK |
How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft (2005-06 Technology Review) |
| "This
because for all its flaws, the open-source model has powerful advantages.
The deepest and also most interesting of these advantages is that,
to put it grossly, open source takes the bullshit out of software.
It severely limits the possibility of proprietary 'lock-in'--where
users become hostage to the software vendors whose products they
buy--and therefore eliminates incentives for vendors to employ the
many tricks they traditionally use on each other and on their customers.
The transparency inherent in the open-source model also limits secrecy
and makes it harder to avoid accountability for shoddy work. People
write code differently when they know the world is looking at it.
Similarly, software companies behave differently when they know
that customers who don't like a product can fix it themselves or
switch to another provider. On the available evidence, it appears
that the secrecy and maneuvering associated
with the traditional proprietary software business generate enormous
costs, inefficiencies,
and resentment. Presented with an alternative,
many people will leap at it." |
LINK |
Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Series overview (2003-11-11 IBM developerWorks) |
| "This
roadmap is designed to help you take
the experience and knowledge that you already have in computing
and redirect it to working in
Linux. It's not the only reference you'll
ever need, but it will help you get past some of your first obstacles
and adjust to a new
and, I think, exciting approach to computing.
As you follow this roadmap, you'll discover many new resources
to help you learn, troubleshoot,
and manage Linux." |
LINK |
I'm So Excited by Microsoft Vista. Not. (7/27/2005 eWeek.com) |
| "Well,
at least Vista is based on the newest
and greatest application development platform ever! .Net Framework!
What? Oh, it's not? " |
LINK |
High-performance commodity computing hits the mainstream (6/7/2005 IBM
developerWorks) |
| "Take
a look at the financial services space
and you'll find that grid has gone mainstream into some of the
world's largest enterprises,
thanks to commodity Linux® servers, open
source tools like Globus, and the growing adoption of service-oriented
architectures. Our
correspondent at the LinuxWorld New York
Summit listened in as technology leaders discussed the burgeoning
use of grid in the financial vertical. " |
LINK |
Linux Muscles Into Microsoft's Space (5/30/2005
Computerworld) |
| "Garnering
trust in an open-source operating system
can be tough, and one of the major downfalls for Linux is its
perceived lack of end-user
support. Although that may have been
true in years past, the rapid adoption of Linux for its superior
quality and cost-effectiveness
has driven Linux vendors to provide comprehensive
technical and customer support. Which means, according to Gomez,
that 'new hardware
does not imply new software. When a business
has to invest in a custom software base, it is not prudent to
base it on a single vendor
proprietary operating system.' With Linux,
the uptime is high, the price is low, and the flexibility is amazing. " |
LINK |
Enterprises Tout Linux's Cost, Performance
Benefits (5/30/2005 eWeek.com) |
| "The
tales told by Roberts and other IT executives
at large enterprises run counter to the persistent pitch from
Microsoft Corp. that moving
to Linux is not only expensive but also difficult
and time-consuming. " |
LINK |
Linux for Suits - We're Going to Be a 90%
Linux Shop (5/4/2005 Linux Journal) |
| "Linux
is rapidly becoming default infrastructure,
and open source is the preferred code condition for all infrastructure.
Not that they're
abandoning Microsoft-far from it. But
Microsoft's primary goods-desktop operating systems and applications-are
becoming niched to the verge
of quarantine." |
LINK |
Linux Comes to Wall Street (4/25/2005
eWeek.com) |
| "State
Street hopes to use Linux for J2EE (Java
2 Platform, Enterprise Edition)-based applications and convert
its Internet Information
Services solutions to a J2EE Linux-based
solution using WebSphere and software from Macromedia Inc. " |
LINK |
Linux desktops have internal role at Cisco
(2/17/2005 LinuxWorld) |
| "The
advantage of Linux on the desktop is
in the ease of administration, provided by some of the built-in
tools and properties of Linux.
Such tools include Secure Shell (SSH),
which can allow a remote administrator to easily access and trouble
shoot a desktop. Also,
the ability to hide and partition underlying
system files and OS underpinnings from users on Linux is helpful. " |
LINK |
Italian bank moves to desktop Linux (2/15/2005
ZDNet UK News) |
| "An
Italian bank is to move to thousands
of computers to the Linux operating system. Werner Knoblich, the
European vice president of Red Hat,
said on Monday that the unnamed bank
has just signed a deal to migrate all its 8,000 PCs to Red Hat's
open source desktop product. " |
LINK |
Linux Inc. (1/31/2005 BusinessWeek
online) |
| "The
software is making its way into everything
from Motorola cell phones and Mitsubishi robots to eBay servers
and the NASA supercomputers
that run space-shuttle simulations. Its
growing might is shaking up the technology industry, challenging
Microsoft Corp.'s dominance
and offering up a new model for creating
software. " |
LINK |
Linux use doubles in financial organisations
(1/28/2005 ZDNet UK) |
| "In
fact the growing support for Linux has
been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations
over the past 12 months, say the
researchers writing in the Financial
Technology Strategies 2005 survey. " |
LINK |
Analysis: The business case for desktop
Linux (12/24/2004 Computerworld) |
| "Industry
research company IDC predicts that enough
companies will see the benefits of a Linux desktop to increase
paid shipments of the operating
system from 3.4 million clients worldwide
in 2002 to more than 10 million by 2007, giving Linux a small
but respectable 6 percent
of the desktop market." |
LINK |
Linux market to top $35B by '08, says IDC
(12/15/2004 DesktopLinux.com) |
| "'This
is the first authoritative and comprehensive
snapshot of how people truly use Linux, and it's not surprising
for us to see that the
adoption is far ahead of even some of
the most optimistic estimates,' said OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen, in
a statement issued today. " |
LINK |
Linux Client Migration Cookbook A Practical
Planning and Implementation Guide for
Migrating to Desktop Linux (12/2004
IBM Redbooks) |
| "The
goal of this IBM Redbook is to provide
a technical planning reference for IT organizations large or small
that are now considering a migration
to Linux-based personal computers." |
LINK |
A Year of Victory for Linux (11/24/2004
eWeek.com) |
| "And
as for Microsoft? I think all you need
do is look at Steve Ballmer's recent comments about Linux and
intellectual property to know that
the company thinks Linux is going to
be causing it serious trouble in the next few years. You can always
see this in Microsoft's plans
to make desktop programs such as the
next version of Office dependent on server-based software. What
nonsense! No word processor in this
day and age should need anything from
a server except a place to store files. No, the reason why Microsoft
is making these moves
is to force users to use its own server
software instead of Linux. In the past, it's been foolish to bet
against the Redmond giant,
but when it comes to Linux, I'm willing
to make that bet. Linux is simply a stunningly good operating
system. " |
LINK |
Linux growing on SMB desktops: Yankee Group
(9/26/2004 eChannelLine USA) |
| "According
to the Yankee Group, the adoption of
Linux on the desktop should grow to the mid-single digits in the
next year. It's common knowledge
that Microsoft rules the desktop operating
system (OS) environment for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs)
in the U.S. But Helen Chan,
senior analyst, small and medium businesses,
for the Boston-based Yankee Group, said the low end of SMBs are
showing an interest in
Linux because they are attracted by the
lower cost of an open source desktop. " |
LINK |
Adobe dipping toes into desktop Linux waters
(11/3/2004 CNET News.com) |
| "Adobe
wants to hire a director of Linux market
development to 'identify and evaluate strategies for Adobe in
the Linux and open-source desktop
market' and to identify projects that
'will help improve Linux as a desktop environment.' The employee
also will 'develop strong business
relationships with leading Linux distributors
and partners.' " |
LINK |
Gartner Analysts Give Nod to Prime-Time
Linux (10/29/2004 eWeek.com) |
| "The
point that the Gartner analysts were
making, over and over again, is not that Linux and open-source
programs are coming, that they'll
be important some day. Rather, they're
in businesses today, and the enterprise—your company—needs to
plan on how it will use them
today. Now." |
LINK |
Windows v Linux security: the real facts
(10/22/2004 The Register) |
| "Petreley
concludes that Microsoft's efforts to
dispel Linux 'myths' are based largely
on faulty reasoning and overly narrow statistical analysis.
Even if you think you know this already
(as we fear may be the case for numerous
Register readers), we think you'll find it useful to
be able to say why you know it, what
the facts and the numbers really are,
and where you can get the document to back up what you're saying.
Appropriately enough, we're offering
the report for free. You can download it
in PDF format here." |
LINK |
Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more
secure', claim vendors (9/28/2004 ZDNet
UK) |
| "He
said that economy and security benefits
should make IT managers seriously examine the issue of desktop
migration to Linux. Tuftedal
said that security costs can add between
10 and 20 percent to what organisations are already paying Microsoft
in terms of licensing
fees." |
LINK |
Desktop Linux set to take on Longhorn (9/8/2004
vnunet.com) |
| "Although
Linux poses "some migration risks", the operating system is maturing rapidly and will be ready to go head-to-head
with Windows on corporate desktops within
two years, industry analysts have predicted." |
LINK |
Microsoft Sees Open-Source Threat Looming
Ever Larger (9/5/2004 eWeek.com) |
| "Among
those recent wins are the Allied Irish
Bank, one of Ireland's largest banking and financial services
groups, which said in June that it
was set to transition its branch-dependent
applications and migrate about 7,500 desktop users off Windows
and onto Sun Microsystems
Inc.'s Java Desktop System over the next
year or so. " |
LINK |
Switching to Linux picks up steam (8/30/2005
CNET News.com) |
| "About
a third of businesses plan to migrate
at least some Windows machines to Linux, according to a recent
survey, but adoption will continue
to be both slow and cautious, as companies
evaluate a maze of economic factors. " |
LINK |
XP SP2 Gives Reasons to Switch to the Linux
Desktop (8/26/2004 eWEEK.com) |
| "The
Linux desktop is far more stable and
secure than XP SP2 is today. Linux applications run without fussing,
and never has a single,
serious Linux virus been seen in the wild." |
LINK |
Free whitepaper helps enterprises migrate
to Linux desktops (8/25/2004 DesktopLinux.com) |
| "Lachniet's
recommendations for companies that are
making a decision on the desktop include defining specific criteria
for migration decisions,
establishing a project management plan
and capabilities assessment, rolling out a Linux desktop pilot
program that accomodates a phased
approach to implementation company-wide,
and developing a Linux support system. " |
LINK |
European banks embrace the Linux system
(8/18/2004) GlobeAndMail.com) |
| "Two
other European banks recently announced
Linux projects, both involving International Business Machines
Corp. Spain's Banco Urquijo is using
Linux in its back office, while Italy's
Banca Popolare di Milano has based its new retail banking platform
on Linux. " |
LINK |
Technology testers (NetworkWorldFusion
8/16/2004) |
| "At
another large company, a Linux-focused technology exploration group
has evolved into a full-fledged IT support and development group. "Linux is one of those technologies that provides that proverbial blank white
sheet of paper," says Tim Golden, director of Linux design and engineering at Bank of America
in Charlotte, N.C. While initially established
as an exploratory group, his team now distributes packaged Linux
and open source hardware/software
bundles for various business units and
offices throughout the company. The group is also the lead IT team
for evaluating and testing how
applications running on the bank's proprietary
Unix platforms would port over to Linux/Intel platforms." |
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Irish Bank Chooses Sun and Linux (6/29/2004
silicon.com) |
| "AIB
chose Linux and the Java Desktop System
because of its 'integrated environment based on open source components
and industry standards'." Here's some interesting insight. |
LINK |
Microsoft Loses Munich Contract for 14,000
PCs to Linux Program (6/16/2004 Bloomberg) |
| "Microsoft
Corp., whose Windows software runs 95
percent of the world's personal computers, lost a contract for
programs to run 14,000 PCs for the
Munich city government to the free Linux
software. " |
LINK |
Report: Server Growth To Be Paced By Blades,
Linux (6/16/2004 InformationWeek) |
| "The
most dramatic growth is for Linux-based
servers. IDC says they are growing at a 47% rate, although from
a small base, and will reach
$3.23 billion this year. Linux machines
are expected to capture 29% of the server market by 2008, nearly
tripling their current
market share." |
LINK |
Linux stays hot as an overall server and
database server platform (6/9/2004 Network
World Fusion) |
| "One
of the hottest applications for Linux
is on RDBMS servers, which run as the database engines for most
enterprise applications and
Web sites. According to Gartner, Linux
was the fastest growing platform for RDMBS in 2003. New server
licenses for Linux-based RDMBS software
rose to $299.3 million in 2003, which
is an increase of 158% from the year before. " |
LINK |
Linux Suitable for Mission-Critical Apps
(5/6/2004 LinuxInsider) |
| "Some
53 percent of 140 companies queried by Forrester are "running mission-critical applications" on Linux, and 52 percent choose Linux for new applications, Forrester said in
a report released last week called 'Linux
Crosses Into Mission-Critical Apps.'" |
LINK |
Expectations
Rising over Linux Desktop (4/13/2004) |
| "The
No. 1 misconception is that usability
is a major barrier to adoption and that's not true. It used to
be. There was a study done recently
with a group of 20 users who had never
used a computer before. Ten were put at a Windows PC, 10 at a
Linux PC and they were given a
list of simple tasks like sending an
e-mail, surfing to a Web page and the usability results were pretty
much the same. " |
LINK |
Marc
Andreessen: "Linux Has Matured" (BusinessWeek
online 3/30/2004) |
| "Remember,
these aren't little companies. These
are big companies that are being locked in. Linux is the first
opportunity they have to get
total control over their computing destiny.
They can buy their server from anyone. They can get their software
to work on any of these
boxes. They love that. " |
LINK |
Linux:
The Real Enterprise Choice (3/19/2004) |
| "The
real question isn't whether Linux is
enterprise-ready. Doh! The real question is, Why do people keep
thinking that Windows is enterprise-ready?
I can only believe it's because they
haven't really compared Windows with Solaris, AIX, z/OS, OS/400,
HP/UX or, oh yes, Linux. " |
LINK |
Selling
your CIO on Linux (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
3/19/2004) |
| "High-tech
used to be about change, Dargo said.
Then vendors began to focus on getting companies entrenched in
their product sets. That fostered
a lack of innovation that has made the
IT market stagnant. Linux can change that. 'Linux is an enabler,'
Dargo said. It gives companies
a lower-cost infrastructure with higher
capabilities and a longer life span than proprietary alternatives. " |
LINK |
Linux
Nips at Microsoft's Heels (TheStreet.com
3/8/2004) |
| "Microsoft
is not on the verge of getting swept
away by a Linux tsunami, as some open-source software enthusiasts
have suggested. But Linux
is a small wave slowly building every
day, and threatens to dampen Microsoft's higher-growth server
business. " |
LINK |
A
comparison of Linux and Windows (Michael
Horowitz, updated periodically) |
| "This
document can serve as an introduction to
Linux for Windows users. " |
LINK |
Report:
Linux Servers Seeing Upsurge (Enterprise
Linux IT 2/7/2004) |
| "The
reason for Linux's dramatic growth, relative to Windows, is that
companies "are comfortable with what Linux offers -- and when they look at Windows, they
may be comfortable with it, but there are concerns about security
and about being beholden to one vendor, especially Microsoft," Smith explained." |
LINK |
Open
Letter to Bill Gates (from Robin Bloor)(it-analysis.com, 2/10/2004) |
| "Anyhow,
what I wanted to write to you about,
among other things, was the awful and
imminent danger of linkage. It is a sword
that cuts both ways. What's happening
out here is that the Linux desktop is in the ascendant,
and believe me, it can't be stopped." |
LINK |
Brazil
Falls in Love with Linux (BBC News, 2/1/
2004) |
| "The
entire 'open source movement' - people
who believe source codes for computer
software shouldn't be hidden under patents and copyrights
for commercial exploitation - is winning
friends in the developing world." |
LINK |
LOS Sharpening the Leading Edge (1/23/2004) |
| "An
LOS needs to be able to operate on a variety of platforms such
as Windows and Linux as well as any future operating platforms
that become popular. Otherwise, lenders can end up as virtual
captives and may pay a very high financial price in the long term. " |
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Desktop Linux Looks Like a Windows Equalizer (1/14/2004)
|
| "I
would say that, in five years, the desktop market will be 50-50
Linux/Windows. " |
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The Linux Alternative (12/19/2003) |
| "Zions
Mortgage decided to migrate to the Linux platform in April 2003.
Because Zions was already using ASC's PowerLender, the transition
to the new system took about a week. Currently, 43 people scattered
among 14 branches use PowerLender. " |
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Dances With Penguins: A Forrester Research Study of Linux Use in Financial Institutions (8/4/2003) |
| "Three
case studies (Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, E*Trade) highlight the
Linux opportunity in financial services."
|
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Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money (6/7/2003) |
| "The
irony that companies may be moving toward an infrastructure that
resembles the mainframe-and-terminal setups of several decades
ago didn't escape Snodgrass. 'It's interesting when Solaris and
Windows are the 'legacy,' and mainframes are the new big thing,'
he said. " |
LINK |
PeopleSoft Jumps On The Linux Train (5/6/2003) |
| "Customers
want to 'leverage the cost effectiveness of Linux and deploy it
on low-cost hardware,' says David Sayed, a PeopleSoft manager. " |
LINK |
The Linux Uprising (3/3/2003) |
| "How
a ragtag band of software geeks is threatening Sun and Microsoft
-- and turning the computer world upside down " |
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