AS DOMINANT SYSTEMS and software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system.
During the past year, users have too closely equated Linux's "scale-up" capabilities -- the capability of a single instance of Linux to handle more and more processors -- with its legitimacy as an enterprise operating system, some observers said.
Rather, at a time when distributed architectures such as those proposed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems are beginning to emerge, Linux should be considered for its ability to "scale out" in a horizontal fashion.
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