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A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center position than before, concluded an IDC white paper. Sixty-five percent of the 330 respondents said they plan to increase Linux server workloads by 10% or more this year. Sixty-three percent said they will increase their use of Linux on the desktop by more than 10% this year, although such an increase would still probably represent a miniscule share of all desktops. Forty-nine percent said they expect Linux will be their primary server platform within five years.
The economic pressures are strengthening the trend toward a higher linux deployment rate. It's almost surreal to see how my daytime employer has changed their stance.
Back in the 90s when I introduced linux, bringing up useful services on linux boxes created out of discarded windoze pcs, there was only grudging acknowledgment of the "upstart operating system" (who remembers that tired old moniker?). I fought against the prevailing management attitudes for years to keep linux servers in production, and to move them into any new role I could come up with.
Today, linux is the official infrastructure platform at this conservative firm, and with the end of the sco threat, and the current financial squeeze, their interest in linux has become quite fervent. It's a very good time to be a linux sys admin.
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Back in the 90s when I introduced linux, bringing up useful services on linux boxes created out of discarded windoze pcs, there was only grudging acknowledgment of the "upstart operating system" (who remembers that tired old moniker?). I fought against the prevailing management attitudes for years to keep linux servers in production, and to move them into any new role I could come up with.
Today, linux is the official infrastructure platform at this conservative firm, and with the end of the sco threat, and the current financial squeeze, their interest in linux has become quite fervent. It's a very good time to be a linux sys admin.