The Linux Uprising

ballpoint writes "Business Week is featuring a list of articles under the header 'The Linux Uprising' including topics like 'Red Flags for Red Hat' and 'A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?' touching everything dear to the Slashdot community. A good read to align yourself with what mainstream businesspeople are fed."

Did someone say Steak?!

[Anonymous Coward]

A good read to align yourself with what mainstream businesspeople are fed.

I could sure go for a tasty steak right now! I know business people eat steak a lot... mmmm... steak!

I'm a business man...

[jpsst34]

No time to read the articles, just gimme the jist.

Linux Uprising?

[kevinvh]

Guess Business Week's next story will be about the dramatic increase in the stock price of companies that manufacture Suspenders..

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Chips for linux?

[macshune]

"Second, Intel Corp., the dominant maker of processors for PCs, loosened its tight links with Microsoft and started making chips for Linux. This made it possible for corporations to get all the computing power they wanted at a fraction of the price."

Specialized linux chips? Why didn't I see this posted on /.???? This is possibly the biggest story this year!

survey says?

[macshune]

"Frustrations, though, run high. One Microsoft executive, chief strategist Craig Mundie, even calls Linux unhealthy for the technology industry. "It ultimately is a question about whether societies are going to value intellectual property or not," he says."

No, they don't! Evidence: Napster, Kazaa, et al. Casual piracy in the workplace. Mix-tapes. etc.

ooo... "e-mail" !

[kevinvee]

... since the volunteer programmers often lack specialized knowledge, complex business applications are probably beyond their range. But basic open-source databases and e-mail are already available.

Beyond the obvious argument about specialized knowledge, I'm really interested in this complex business application they call "e-mail." Has anyone else heard of this? I hear It's making waves through the internet.

It's the Mascots

[Nikk Name]

It all boils down to the mascots. Right now, the Linux symbol is a cute cartoon penguin.

For Microsoft, the symbol right now is a fat guy in a skintight butterfly suit.

Now, which mascot is more appealing?

Re:A bit dramatic?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yankee Linus came to Redmond
Riding on his pony
Shoved a.....
errrr ohh you mean the real version?
I was thinking about the one I sang on 5th grade.

Re:Date of the article?

[ak_hepcat]

Hmm.. Good question!

($ageInDays + 13)-year-old =
( 12156 + 13 )-year-old =
12169-year-old

I'd like to tell my 12169-year-old self:

"Hey, good job on staying alive so long! I'll bet that 666th year was a killer!"

Oh, to be alive in AD14172. Can you imagine my Slashdot Karma by then? Of course, the conversion to IPv32 was a real pain...

Re:Linux Uprising?

[fiftyLou]

From the B. Perens Interview:
The only way to stop open source is to make it illegal. If they're not going to make it illegal, it's pretty hard to stop it.


Hey Bruce, you givin' away the play book now? ;-)

Great... now the PHB will never go for Linux...

[Dman33]

Me: Read this article on Business Week... it outlines the history of Linux and it's increasing presense in corporate America, at least on servers...

PHB: Intel chips for Linux? No way! I would rather pay the licensing for Win2k Server than replace all of the hardware with special Linux chips that I have never heard of!

Me: Linux chips? Wait... Mmmmmm... chips. Mesquite chips.... or salt-vinegar chips.... okay, going to the cafeteria... you need anything?

PHB: No thanks.

No wonder nothing ever gets done around here....

Re:next article .....

[spotlight2k3]

maybe he just shredded the "n" to hide the evidence

Re:Did someone say Steak?!

[Anonymous Coward]

You need to wait for March 20th - The Official Steak And Blowjob Day (aka Business Day ?)

Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

We could sell ad... no wait.

Hmm.

We could ship a limited demo version and... hmm no...

Guess I'm just going to have to whore myself out to every woman in town.

Re:I'm a business man...

[Spy Hunter]

Here's the gist: Linus Torvalds is married to the six-time women's karate champion of Finland! [businessweek.com] Bill Gates better not try to mess with Linus!

Re:It's the Mascots

[kevinvh]

Well, the truly funny thing is I hear that fat guy in the MSN commercials actually runs Linux at home.. And I'm pretty sure I read some posts of his here on /. under the name ButterflyBoi4u..

How could she....

[Anonymous Coward]

Her name was oh-so avant-garde: Scirocco Six. Yet it turned out she was working for none other than Microsoft.

What the...how could that little bitch...I could just...all that time I thought she was a call girl!

Re:A bit dramatic?

[kfg]

A Better Model by Steven Levine at Apollo Computer
Submitted by "Spam"
Sung to the tune of "A Modern Major-General"
by Gilbert and Sullivan

I've built a better model than the one at Data General
For data bases vegetable, animal, and mineral
My OS handles CPUs with multiplexed duality;
My PL/1 compiler shows impressive functionality.
My storage system's better than magnetic core polarity,
You never have to bother checking out a bit for parity;
There isn't any reason to install non-static floor matting;
My disk drive has capacity for variable formatting.

Chorus:
His disk drive has capacity for variable formatting,
His disk drive has capacity for variable formatting,
His disk drive has capacity for variable format-formatting.

I feel compelled to mention what I know to be a gloating point:
There's lots of room in memory for variables floating-point,
Which shows for input vegetable, animal, and mineral
I've built a better model than the one at Data General.

Chorus:
Which shows for input vegetable, animal, and mineral
He's built a better model than the one at Data General.

The IBM new home computer's nothing more than germinal;
At Prime they still have trouble with an interactive terminal;
While Tandy's done a lousy job with operations Boolean,
At Wang the byte capacity's too small to fit a coolie in.
Intel's mid-year finances are something of the trouble sort;
The Timex Sinclar crashes when you implement a bubble sort.
All DEC investors soon will find they haven't spent their money well;
And need I even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?

Chorus:
And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?
And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honeywell?
And need he even mention Nixdorf, Univac, or Honey-Honeywell?

By striving to eliminate all source code that's repetitive
I've brought my benchmark standings to results that are competitive.
In short, for input vegetable, animal, and mineral
I've built a better model than the one at Data General.

Chorus:
In short for input vegetable, animal, and mineral
He's built a better model than the one at Data General.

In fact when I've a floppy of a maximum diameter,
When I can call a subroutine of infinite parameter,
When I can point to registers and keep their current map around,
And when I can prevent the need for mystifying wraparound,
When I can update record blocks with minimum of suffering,
And when I can afford to use a hundred K for buffering,
When I've performed a matrix sort and tested the addition rate,
You'll marvel at the speed of my asynchronous transmission rate.

Chorus:
You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission rate,
You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission rate,
You'll marvel at the speed of his asynchronous transmission-mission rate.

Though all my better programs that self-reference recursively
Have only been obtained through expert spying, done subversively,
But still for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I've built a better model than the one at Data General.

Chorus:
But still for input vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He's built a better model than the one at Data General.

KFG

Re:I'm a business man...

[Ivan Raikov]

My God, 3 comments and nobody can fucking spell 'gist.'

They're all business people!

Re:How could she....

[Anonymous Coward]

Errrrr
I knew Six a few years ago, back at napster, when Six went by the name 'Christian' - we just thought the dude was gay.

Re:I'm a business man...

[SN74S181]

I have this image of Linus all trussed up and Tove the dominitrix... welll..... we better not go there, this is a FAMILY site, after all. heh.