What Does a Linux Support Contract Buy?
Though it's struggled when it comes to kicking in doors in the consumer market, Linux has clearly found a welcome home in the enterprise, and it appears to be making itself more comfortable with each passing day.
"It's the fastest-growing server-side operating system of any of them that are out there -- Unix, Windows, you name it," Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider.
"The reason it's growing so fast," he continued, "is because in a down economy, companies now know that Linux will save them real money."
Free, With a Caveat
As fresh company eyeballs examine Linux, its value proposition may be obscured by its reputation as a "free" operating system. If the OS is free, one might ask, then what are outfits like Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat, Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) More about Novell and IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM trying to sell me?
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