FW: RUSSELL PAVLICEK: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com, Wednesday, February 13, 2002

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RUSSELL PAVLICEK:    "The Open Source"    InfoWorld.com
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Wednesday, February 13, 2002


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OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted February 8, 2002 01:01 PM  Pacific Time


THE RECENT LinuxWorld in New York was the scene of some
startling revelations regarding the state of open
source. Last summer's show in California showed that
Linux wanted to do business in the enterprise. But at
this LinuxWorld, Linux looked like nothing but
business in the enterprise.

The bouncing balls, flashing lights, and loudmouth
magicians were few and far between. The trinkets,
baubles, and T-shirts were in short supply. Instead,
everywhere you looked, someone was trying to make a sale.

But these sales were not like those at conferences
past. No one was hawking cheap Linux CDs or tins of
caffeinated penguin mints. Even the boxed Linux
distributions were in fairly short supply.

This time the sales targets were much bigger.

Did you need a server? No problem. Plenty of vendors
were showing servers. Wanted something bigger? You
were in luck: There was plenty of meat to eat on that bone.

Intel and AMD were both there in force. Intel in
particular had a very big booth featuring the IA64 and
related technologies.