USA Today and NYT on Linux rising 157
prostoalex writes "USA Today notices significant rise of Linux in the high-end enterprise environment. Although it doesn't provide obligatory pretty pictures, the paper mentions the projects at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and NASA. Also if you've missed the New York Times Google article of the day, the expose on John Doerr from Valley's venerable KPCB talks about venture fund investing $12 million in LinuxCare. NYT quote: "That's a freight train I wouldn't want to get in front of," said Mr. Doerr, explaining the importance to having a stake in a Linux-based venture. "Probably get run over.''"
King of the Unbiased (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot.org: King of the unbiased quotes
Next article: We ask Linus if Linux is l33t and Windows sux0rz
Freight train? (Score:5, Funny)
NYT quote: "That's a freight train I wouldn't want to get in front of," said Mr. Doerr, explaining the importance to having a stake in a Linux-based venture. "Probably get run over.''"
Unlike all those other fluffy freight trains that one could "get in front of" with no consequences. I imagine his last name is pronounced "derrr" (see 'duh' [colloquial]).
Old! :) (Score:5, Funny)
What I was going to say:
Eh? Hasn't 2.6 been officially stable for quite a while? Does it run quite of a lot of production systems?
Oooooh!
A two month old article! Well done slashdot!
What I realised just before I hit submit:
Ngggg! Why can't people use ISO date format? That is the silly month/day/year format.
Re:Wow. what is Microsoft going to do? (Score:5, Funny)
Their response? Bankrolling SCO for a few more years.
Re:Wow. what is Microsoft going to do? (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe they'll just advertise on
Re:Freight train? (Score:5, Funny)
-fren
Gripe: Use of "circa" (Score:3, Funny)
When did the words like "around", "about", and "roughly" become inadequate to convey an approximation?
Another Close Call! (Score:5, Funny)
As some may now Bill Gates invests in companies like John Deere. I thought, "so that's how he's gonna get in, through the back door". Then I RTFA and said Whew!
They play that damn Nelly and Chingy to much, when something like DEER reads as DERR and vice versa.
Considers... (Score:4, Funny)
Hardly obligatory then, are they?
Re:The best quote! (Score:4, Funny)
Ahh.. so what he's saying is that when he got there, they had abacuses (abaci?), and now they have Pentium-IIs?
circa: in approximately: born circa 1900 [reference.com]
My question (of course), is how the hell did they get an abacus to run Linux?
Re:Freight train? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux is DYING (Score:5, Funny)
As the result of a comment with the subject "Linux is DYING" being moderated to "+5, Insightful", Slashdot will now spontaneously implode.
Thank you for your time.
Re:Old! :) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:King of the Unbiased (Score:3, Funny)
USA Today and Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Just another example of us little guys being shut out from an IPO. Not only that, it's been kept secret until now...
Re:Old! :) (Score:5, Funny)