Skiewiel attendeerde ons erop dat LinuxWorld Expo 2001 gestart is in San Fransisco. Ook dit jaar doen er weer veel grote bedrijven mee (IBM, Hewlett Packard, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Borland, SGI, Oracle, Compaq, Dell) en nog vele tientallen kleinere. Naast de Expo wordt ook de jaarlijkse 'Linus Torvalds Community Award' ($25,000) uitgereikt. Verder worden er lezingen gegeven die onder andere over de toekomst van Linux gaan. In een nieuwsbericht van Computer News Daily wordt ingegaan op welke punten de groei van Linux verwacht kan worden:
Still, few large businesses are using Linux to run bread-and-butter business applications such as accounting, order entry and inventory management - areas where Unix still dominates and Windows is gaining ground.Instead, corporations are adopting Linux mostly for the same kinds of chores that earlier won over ISPs: nearly 56 percent of all Linux systems are used for Internet infrastructure functions, while an additional 16.7 percent run collaborative applications such as e-mail and group scheduling programs.
Now that it has gained a foothold in the corporate world, though, Linux seems to be expanding its scope. ``It's moving up the server food chain,'' said Eastwood. ``It's even beginning to attack the low end of the Unix market.''
And that attack will become more serious next year, he predicted, when McKinley, the code name for a new version of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, is expected to provide a higher-performance hardware platform for Linux. (Though versions of the OS are available for a variety of processors, it's currently used mainly on low-end servers with 32-bit Intel chips - the same kind used in everyday PCs.)
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