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Outsider No More: Linux Critical In Many Data Centers (ChannelWeb)
ChannelWeb
reports
on the increase of IT applications for Linux at LinuxWorld.
"In a sign of how much Linux has become a core element in many corporate data centers, many of the new products making their debut at this week's LinuxWorld show focus on such critical IT operations as data integration, disaster recovery and security management.
That's a marked change from the past when a new Linux-related product was measured more by its "cool factor" than its utility."
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Outsider No More: Linux Critical In Many Data Centers (ChannelWeb) Posted Aug 7, 2008 17:14 UTC (Thu) by RobertBrockway (guest, #48927) [Link] A few times lately I've read articles like this and I think they must have come through a time warp. Linux has been integral to many businesses for a long time now. When I got involved with Linux in 1994 it was already fairly common in large corporations, typically providing functionality outside the core business, eg, as the DNS servers or mail servers. This often happened without the knowledge of management. At that time it was the backbone of many small business networks too. By the late 90s it was already integral to the core business of many large corporations. A good deal of my consulting work from about 1999 onwards was on Linux servers providing core functionality in large corporations. Yes Linux is seeing ever great success, but to proclaim Linux as being critical in the DC in 2008 is a bit late.
Outsider No More: Linux Critical In Many Data Centers (ChannelWeb) Posted Aug 7, 2008 17:45 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] The big difference is that they will readily admit to using it now.
Outsider No More: Linux Critical In Many Data Centers (ChannelWeb) Posted Aug 7, 2008 22:49 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] I agree that Linux isn't "just now" becoming important in the data center. But, while Linux has indeed been used in the server room for some time, the proprietary vendors (i.e., Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, etc.) made an aggressive marketing push throughout the past decade to check Linux's growth (and influence PHBs that paying for proprietary server licenses was the "only" true way). The time frame for the infamous Halloween Documents and all those "Get the Facts" studies seems to corroborate this theory. This article appears to be a veiled announcement that the proprietary vendors have seemingly exhausted their "Avoid Linux" marketing strategies and FUD techniques, and only now should Linux be taken seriously as a server OS. Just my perceptions...
Outsider No More: Linux Critical In Many Data Centers (ChannelWeb) Posted Aug 10, 2008 2:14 UTC (Sun) by aristedes (guest, #35729) [Link] Perhaps it is simply that the journalist who wrote this either: a) Has spent so much time on corporate 'fact finding' conferences in Fiji, that they have only now had one of their friends alert them to what has been going on with this new-fangled Linux thing; or b) This is a bit like the 'a little bit of red wine has been proven to reduce the risk [insert illness here]' story which is circulated once a year in the media. That is, not much to write about for this issue, so they just recycle one of the stories with a few words changed. Disclaimer: I consume red wine whenever it is offered and got out of this Linux thing when I discovered FreeBSD about 10 years ago. Hopefully journalists will one day be even educated enough to understand the difference between GNU, Linux, kernels, operating systems, and the whole Unix environment.
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