Linux Web Hosting Market Set to Boom, Apr 04, 2001

According to research conducted by Idaya, the Linux market is set to grow by more than 150 per cent this year.

Austin Delaney, founder of the freeVSD project commented on the research, saying, "The improved ability of the ISP to bring down the cost of web services, yet be able to rely on robust and proven GPL [General Public Licence] applications, is putting web-enablement within the grasp of a far wider global business community (...) we are also seeing the traditional proprietary providers of enterprise systems - IBM, Oracle, Dell, Compaq, HP, etc. - putting billions of dollars into Linux development. This is critically important as it presages the penetration of Linux into corporate back-office processes, immediately opening a far wider market." Another signal of IBM's intent in backing Linux is provided by the fact that the OS merits a page in the IBM annual report!

Linux Online interview Austin Delaney last month. Read about it here

In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems has acquired Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix, merging the realms of proprietary and freely shared software.

Known as the Adore worm, the program is designed to create so-called back doors in the security of Linux systems and send information identifying the compromised systems to four different e-mail addresses hosted on servers in China and the United States. "It seems to be a variant of the Ramen worm, said David Dittrich, security administrator for the University of Washington and an expert on digital forensics and hacking tools.

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