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wowing the financial community -- to IBM's grid
computing model, interconnected racks of machines were
everywhere.

Need even more horsepower? You could take a gander at
IBM's Linux-only mainframe. That's right, folks: A new
model of the traditional icon of corporate computing,
the IBM mainframe, supports Linux exclusively. Now
someone tell me how Linux has no place in the enterprise.

Then there was Carly Fiorina. In one of the more
"clueful" (the antithesis of "clueless") executive
presentations on open source I have ever heard, the
Hewlett-Packard CEO outlined how the company is
competing in this space. She painted open source as
"the democratization of innovation in technology."
HP's wins in the Linux server market include such
notable names as Boeing (it showed a 400 percent
improvement at one-third the cost of its prior
solution), Amazon.com (it saved $17 million using
Linux), and DreamWorks (the creators of the movie
Shrek relied heavily on Linux rendering). Suddenly,
IBM's Linux wins at ETrade and Pixar don't seem so
lonely after seeing HP's list.

Even NetBSD got in the act. Normally a very techie,
sound, almost stoic OS that feels more like a
traditional Unix than Linux, NetBSD announced a new
version that purports to load a very friendly system
that any corporate end-user could love.

And a note to those folks who scoffed at IBM a year ago
when the company announced they would invest $1
billion in Linux development: IBM is reportedly on the
verge of recouping the investment. And it didn't
achieve that by selling the occasional Web and print
server. The enterprise is Big Blue's game, and it is
playing to win.

If you have been waiting for open source to come to the
enterprise, wait no longer. It is in the enterprise now.

Are you a
believer? Contact Russell at pavlicek at linuxsolutions.com.

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* Sun gets serious about Linux
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* Sun plans to announce Linux strategy
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* Is Linux really ready for the enterprise?
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* LinuxWorld: Group announces new standards for Linux
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"As the PUR document is part of most customers' volume
license agreements and is subject to periodic change, in
theory Microsoft customers should check it regularly to
see what rights Microsoft has decided to grant or take
away."

--"The Gripe Line" columnist Ed Foster, writing about
Microsoft's Product Use Rights document.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml?021
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