Linux, at your service (Info World) [LWN.net]

Info World looks at Linux as an application server platform (ASP). "Eric Packman, CTO and cofounder of Boston-based Coradient, a provider of monitoring and management services for ASPs, agreed that Linux is popular among service providers. "The vast majority [of ASPs] I know use Linux up front [as a Web server] because [it's] really cheap and really fast," he said. "So any time you want to handle a larger load of customers and more people that turn up [at a Web site], you can turn on a bunch of Linux machines." Officials at Oracle, which uses Linux in its application outsourcing, see Linux becoming a deployment platform for applications."

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