Keeping the Desktop Dream Alive, Part 2 (TechNewsWorld) [LWN.net]

TechNewsWorld has the second half of a LinuxInsider interview with Jim Zemlin. "Let's take a non-high-tech marketplace like power production -- let's use power companies. They're basically setting up smart grid technology to meter people's [electricity] consumption on a 15-minute incremental basis so they can manage power patterns and make sure the grid is allocating energy effectively. If you're polling 12 million customers' power usage every 15 minutes, you're polling millions of transactions that have to be centralized, stored and analyzed, then have the data pushed out. You have power meters, servers that store and analyze the data, high-performance computers to crunch the data. In all those categories, Linux is either the No. 1 operating system or the fastest-growing operating system."

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