[TriLUG] Whither Linux?

[Jon Carnes]

Linus is defiantely cool, but he is not Linux.  You may as easily ask "what 
if Stallman died?"  Well both Linus and Stallman have made their major 
impact and those ripples have changed the world.  The changes don't die 
with the creator.

If AOL bought up RH, good for them.  Not bad for linux.  After all, RH is 
just one of many.  Admitidly RH plays a major role in guiding Linux into 
the infrastructure of the corporation, but that work won't stop.  IBM is 
surfing the Linux wave and will become more of a key player in that 
momentum.  And if not IBM... some other major corp would throw on their 
jams, wax their board up and join the wave.  Because they are not "leading" 
they are following along with it.


>
> On the low end of the economic spectrum, avoiding the MS tax is a key
> disrupter.  On the high end, Sun, MS, and Linux will do battle.  Linux
> and open source OS will secure a place.  But at the high end of things,
> teh question is less about the OS and more about the application.  If the
> application comes quicker, better, cheaper on Linux, then Linux will
> dominate in the high end.  This .NET thing is a concern.  It contains
> proprietary teechnology.  How can anyone seriously consider such an
> alternative?  Has nothing been learned?
>
> Mike M.

I think of .NET as more of a gnu like issue than a linux issue.  Linux is 
the OS - and .Net can be made to work on Linux.  

The .NET will take off and it will happen big in corporations.  MS has 
learned alot from java and OpenSource and they have crafted this one well.  
Well enough that the OpenSource community is already on this one - with the 
development of MONO.  You see the wave is growing... and its true name is 
Open

Jon Carnes