Monday, August 17, 2009

LINUX: Should businesses support Linux?

Businesses today support Windows. Many also support Mac OS X. Should businesses also support Linux?

The answer is that most already do—at least in some form. Look closely in the corporate data center and you're likely to find Linux servers. Often you will see rack after rack loaded with Linux servers. Industrial Light and Magic's (ILM) data center in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio, handles their special effects image rendering on banks of Linux-based servers.

Even if you don't find Linux in the data center you will probably find it's big brother Unix. IBM AIX servers, very commonly found in data centers, are Unix based. continue reading. . .

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