NetworkWorldFusion - Linux barrels deeper into the enterprise
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Tuesday January 29 2002 @ 08:20PM EST
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By now the Linux story is well-known: A university student's computer project evolves into Internet-based software development phenomenon, the software becomes a legitimate Microsoft/Unix threat, is overhyped by industry watchers and overvalued by Wall Street. Then reality sets in, and small companies that had invested heavily in the technology crash along with the rest of the high-tech world.
End of story? No, really only the beginning.
Despite the hype and the fears, Linux and other open source software have made serious gains in corporate IT shops. The strength of the technology is real, enterprise users and analysts proclaim, and vendor giants such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are betting heavily on Linux and investing billions of dollars in open source software development to make it even stronger. And more is on the way, from the enterprise-class products coming at this week's LinuxWorld show (see related story, page 1) to improved symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support that could come in the next year.
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