Commentary: Linux's foot in the door (News.com)

[Posted October 19, 2002 by corbet]

Here's another analyst pronouncement on News.com; this one is from Forrester Research, and it is highly positive. "Long thought of as a fledgling operating system, Linux is now ready for prime time. CIOs have many new reasons to be confident that they'll get quality Linux support from their largest application vendors and systems integrators."

Commentary: Linux's foot in the door (News.com)

Posted Oct 22, 2002 19:17 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

I imagine the LSB people are creaming in their jeans over:

The vendors have standardized. Over the past year, the Linux Standard Base (LSB), a work group of the Free Standards Group chartered with maintaining the standards for the foundational Linux kernel, became more influential. Why is this important? The LSB ensures that Linux does not mutate into several incompatible versions, à la Unix. This makes it easier for vendors to develop enterprise applications because each flavor of Linux has the same standard core. Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake all have received LSB certifications for their new releases.

And they deserve it. Good job, guys.