Linux To Become A De Facto Standard (IT-Director) [LWN.net]

IT-Director.com is carrying a column by Robin Bloor on why Linux is the only reasonable choice for "server virtualization" applications. "It qualifies because it spans so many platforms - from small devices up to IBM's zSeries mainframe. It also qualifies because, like TCP/IP, it doesn't actually belong to anyone. It runs on most chips and is rapidly becoming the developer platform of choice. So the idea is starting to emerge that you virtualise storage by the use of SANs and NAS and you virtualise server hardware by the use of Linux - thus making it feasible to switch applications from one server to another automatically, and quickly."

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Linux To Become A De Facto Standard (IT-Director)

Posted Jul 17, 2003 8:31 UTC (Thu) by fuertw (guest, #10561) [Link]

I fully agree to that; furthermore linux knowledge (or Unix in generall) is very long-living. Many of my collegues told me, that they can use their 10 year old Unix knowledge to work with Linux and vice verce.
Wolfgang Fürtbauer, IT-Director, EBEWE Pharma