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Slowly but surely Linux is being chosen over Windows not only for servers, but also for desktops.

TCO for Application Servers: Comparing Linux with Windows and Solaris.

The adoption of Linux on the desktop will be slow because a platform migration can be expensive and time-consuming.

The biggest threat from Linux is to Sun.

This is a valuable contribution to the Linux community that will help open-source developers benefit from Novell's research to create a better, more user-friendly desktop, ... Usability is a key requirement in order to drive the Linux desktop into the mainstream. This ... will help break down some of the barriers to mainstream Linux adoption on the desktop.

Desktop Linux is less expensive for schools to buy and less expensive for IT administrators to upgrade,

Do I see fragmentation for the Linux kernel? There is certainly going to be some of that.

The metamorphosis of Linux from a free, hobbyist software environment to a major revenue-producing operating system is occurring with the same surety and swiftness of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification,

The large memory of 64-bit will be nice for database applications, but the apps that currently run on Linux don't need 64-bit.

The cost of migrating to Windows XP to Vista will be higher than the cost of migrating to Linux and that will push migrations to Linux.

The key thing about Linux is that it's all about freedom. The time to get into Linux is now.

The U.S. government's support for Linux is indicative of the shift away from government-developed code and the lower costs associated with commercial off-the-shelf solutions. The U.S. government benefits from the community efforts to enhance the security of Linux with up-to-date technical innovation.

They are keeping the source code, (which) means that their product becomes wrapped in it and encapsulated, and in a sense (this is) going against the ideals and benefits of what made Linux useful to them in the first place.

Clearly this is a prerequisite for AMD to have any success in the entry-level server market. If you look at that particular segment, although Linux is gaining some momentum, the vast preponderance of servers are running with Windows.

Investors should have Linux exposure. It is one of the biggest trends in technology.

But I'm no longer nervous about talking to enterprise customers about Linux and that is a big change. We consider Linux a tier-one platform that will be available for all our server products and we have made a major commitment to support it.

But IT pros should ask one thing and one thing only: 'Am I getting the best products and services that allow me to run my business at maximum efficacy.' The answer for the lion's share of the time will be in favor of Microsoft products and solutions, and we feel you shouldn't have to think about Linux if you do not want to,

But if it becomes more profitable for companies to try and develop software for the Windows operating system, it makes it less likely that Linux will gain more traction. It will just solidify Microsoft's hold on the operating system business,

Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with somebody in Finland, the U.S. or Australia, but they are not doing that,

But you need a good something else, and Linux is a good something else. I predict Linux will grow even faster than NT. We will have real competition at the operating system level and that is good for everyone.

By choosing Windows over Linux for our new SAP solution, we'll save an estimated $1 million in costs over the first four years. We needed performance, security and reliability at a reasonable price, and Linux would have presented greater risk in all those areas. I need a proven IT environment that I'm sure we can support.

It'll be six months before Linux really hits the desktop.

It's a market that has been really difficult for us to get our arms around. We have no real way to track the number of copies of Linux that are installed. If a person downloads a copy from site, they could wind up installing Linux on one machine or a thousand machines. What we can keep track of is the money generated by commercial shipments.

A new model of intellectual property management for Linux must be established to maintain advances in software innovation -- regardless of the size or type of business or organization.

A growing number of organizations are interested in moving away from closed, proprietary technology platforms in favor of an open computing model. As one of the fastest growing operating systems in the world, Linux is emerging as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows as an email and collaboration platform.

The first thing we would see is the applications popping up on things like Solaris and Linux, which would bring them more strongly into play and potentially clear the way for other manufacturers to build Linux processors, ... But they still wouldn't have the benefit of all the legacy software, so I don't see that this is suddenly going to cause the whole Windows thing to fall over flat on its face.

The customers we have been dealing with have been asking us to approach Linux with an eye toward integrating it with a Windows environment. Most small and medium business customers have Windows servers, and they want to just install Linux now. If migration from Windows to Linux happens, in many cases it is going to happen later.

The effective standardization of Linux implementations is essential for the growth of the market and for organizations to obtain maximum value from their technology investments,

The changes to make Linux accessible on the desktop will be in the user interfaces of things like Gnome (Gnu Network Object Model Environment) and KDE (K Desktop Environment), rather than in anything we do.

The companies we're working with are very strongly determined to run mission-critical workloads on Linux on x86.

You could see a lot more Linux on PCs. It could also allow for more Linux in appliances like DVD players.

This is all part of Sun's effort to remain relevant by making Solaris more attractive to users and blunting the growing interest in Linux by offering their own open-source technology.

This has crucial implications for Linux on desktops.

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

These are markets that are widely separated by geography, and despite that, all three adopted Linux for the same reasons -- to lower costs and increase overall IT efficiency.

A complete, open-sourced enterprise-class software portfolio, with multi-platform support and priced at or below Linux or Windows is proving to be a very compelling value proposition. American Express joins the long list of recent wins on Wall Street and once again validates that tight integration, a simplified business model and low, predictable pricing wins the day.

It's more than just networking. What they are doing is building Linux appliances, which has real cost-saving (potential) for Web site operators. They are looking to attack the market early and hard. That was the Netscape strategy and the Amazon.com strategy.

A third of workloads now being deployed on Linux come from Unix, a third from Windows and a third are new installations.

It's not really about Linux vs. Microsoft, it's about something you really, really have fun with and lets others have fun as well.

The numbers that VA Linux reported included a charge of $4.2 million, ... If you take that out, they actually lost 23 cents a share, as compared to the analysts' expectations of a loss of 21 cents.

The numbers that VA Linux reported included a charge of $4.2 million. If you take that out, they actually lost 23 cents a share, as compared to the analysts' expectations of a loss of 21 cents.

It's not as bad as when there were a hundred different companies selling Unix. There are maybe six or eight Linux distributors we all know about. But given the size of the market, even though it's growing quickly, it's not clear that they will all exist three or four years from now.

There was a tremendous price-performance gain when people transitioned to Linux for the telecom equipment manufacturers. Now people are looking for that in the mobile area,

There was hope at the time that Linux would really make headway into retail. But then, there was a certain sense of disappointment when Linux didn't really 'take off' from there.

It's a technical achievement within the virus writing community, in this case the ability to infect both Windows and Linux executable files.

We will try to specify some requirements for the Linux kernel that OSDL and others will be creating, so as to make sure it meets our requirements for performance, power consumption, things like that, that are really needed to make a complete, viable phone.

We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop.

We want to get that body to really be the body that keeps the Linux community together in terms of its APIs and the other standard pieces of Linux, because today it's really controlled by a set of individuals. And they've done a fabulous job of keeping it together, but you have to have something that's a little more structured and repeatable,

This level of industry collaboration and cooperation demonstrates the growing interest in using Linux among federal agencies. The certification will also provide Red Hat with first-mover status in comparison to completely Linux distributions.

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

This is very big for Linux, ... People want the value and the security. It is a viable alternative. For half the people out there, Linux would work for them.

How people look at Linux in the enterprise is evolving.

If I'm a company that is primarily using Windows servers and I haven't been a big user of Unix, for me to bring Linux into my environment would be a significant expense. I'd have to get people trained, develop policies and procedures and processes. It's building a whole new infrastructure, and if I can avoid doing that why wouldn't I? If I can make use of open source applications and get all the advantages of open source and still run on Windows, why not? Then I can still take advantage of all the expertise I have.

I don't see how they get there, honestly, without doing more in the Linux and Microsoft space, which are the volume operating systems in the x86 market, ... They're going to struggle to provide the proof of why this is so different and so unique in the marketplace to get customers comfortable buying from HP, Dell or IBM to consider it.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

We can build a better product than Linux,

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

The leaders named here represent some of the brightest minds in the world of Linux and open standards. Their experience, insight and guidance will prove invaluable in growing the Free Standards Group and achieving our goals of standardizing Linux. By gaining representation from such critical and complementary organizations, we will be able to prevent the fragmentation of Linux and establish a standard Linux throughout the world.

The level of a product's security is inversely proportionate to its position in the marketplace, ... If Linux had a 50 percent market share, you'd see more Linux vulnerabilities exposed.

The issue with Linux has always been the desktop, ... a non-starter on the desktop for all kinds of reasons.

All of the Linux developments are a disparate set of projects,

The Linux community doesn't want to be seen as ambulance chasers. Companies that don't follow etiquette rules in security lose share.

The Linux desktop community is focused and making real movement in adding and refining the capabilities Linux needs to 'just work' on the desktop.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.