Linux: Penguin takes flight
Open source platform Linux is gaining in popularity but tech titans, not
startups, will benefit.
January 23, 2003: 2:02 PM EST
By Paul R. La Monica <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CNN/Money Senior
Writer
http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/23/technology/linux/index.htm
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For this reason, as techies gathered in New York this week for
the industry's LinuxWorld conference, even Microsoft, the
unlikeliest of attendees at a Linux trade show, had a presence.
"Microsoft has recognized that Linux is a big deal," says Pip Coburn,
global technology strategist for UBS Warburg. "The company has a
booth at LinuxWorld and is trying to steer those disenfranchised with
Unix servers to Microsoft-based platforms and away from Linux.
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