Feel good linux article

Infoworld has a feel-good article about Linux' recent growth, and things we can expect from Linux-friendly industry giants in the future. Link from LWN.

Mainstreaming Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

For linux to go mainstream we have to cater to the non technical crowd. This means like a previous poster said, creating simple popular applications such as AOL clients etc.

9 out of 10 computer users I see here at college doen't care about the operating system. They just want to be able to look at the web, use email, and use applications that they need for class or for other reasons. One thing that they like about windows is that they just click on one link and it installs in the right place and puts an icon where they can easily find it. They don't know what a file stucture is and they don't care to learn. They interface witht he applications and not how it gets there.

I'm all for linux, got a dual boot setup on my own computer and I try to write platform independent code. Still, I'm hoping some developers also see this trend and start to program for these types of people, because that's were the money is. rememmber a fool and his money are easily parted...

HP Openview is only the beginning...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm glad the HP Openview teams are hearing the
calls loud & clear - demonstrating their eagerness
to retain market leadership.

But porting HP Openview to linux is just the beginning - it's just the network management
framework on which tools can be developed. Now
we will have to convince the tens of thousands of
application developers who have used openview as a
base to port their tools to openview over linux.

If Openview finds the market demand for linux, I'm sure we can convince NM app developers of the same.

Keep it up, HP!

HP OpenView!

[IGnatius T Foobar]

HP OpenView on Linux would be a big win. Anyone who's ever had the non-pleasure of running large network management systems on Windows NT will agree that Unix is definitely the way to go; unfortunately, many IS departments will scoff at the often prohibitive cost of Sun or HP hardware. OpenView on Linux would combine the power and reliability of Unix with the economy of commodity hardware. Funny how those same reasons keep coming up for app after app.

Speaking of which... :-)

[edgy]

This is probably slightly off topic...

Speaking of industry giants supporting Linux, how well do the Dell Poweredge servers with RAID and all work with Linux?

I heard that Dell was pre-installing Linux on some of these beasts, so I suppose it works. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm hoping to set up a 100 client samba PDC using one of these things..

We'll know Linux has REALLY become mainstream...

[alumshubby]

...when there's an AOL client available for it.

Seriously -- if Compaq and HP are getting on board this train, anybody want to bet how long before we see MS Office for *ix? (They'll probably never swallow their crow sandwich and call it "... for Linux.")

Amusing...

[itp]

Where else have we seen this:

"It's a best-of-breed Unix," Noxon added.

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Speaking of which... :-)

[orabidoo]

I've seen (and installed) Linux on a poweredge and it worked very nicely. the box has 136 days of uptime right now... it doesn't have RAID though, so I don't know how supported that is ...

Tivoli on Linux not new

[DMC]

There has been a Linux port for the Tivoli Framework for more than a year now. It was done by a support engineer. I played with it a bit when I worked in support at Tivoli last year.

It works as well as any other Tivoli product on other platforms.

damon

Buzzwords

[daviddennis]

There's something really strange about buzzwords:

InnoSystems® InnoVator® provides best-of-breed support for applications in the enterprise.

I don't know why, but just hearing the same tired phrases repeated over and over again in articles makes me feel vaguely sick.

D

We'll know Linux has REALLY become mainstream...

[Compuser]

Better yet, use vi exclusively, dumbhead.