The IDC Top 10 IT industry tips for 2002, Jan 05, 2002

Linux will have a "breakout year." Last year there were a number of ways the market could have gone - including into the tank. Now it seems clear that Linux has become a viable alternative for enterprise use.

A new and more dangerous version of a remote-control virus that targets computers running the Linux operating system may be in the wild, but security experts do not expect the malicious code to spread widely.

According to preliminary analyses, the virus appears to be a "smarter" variant of the Remote Shell Trojan (RST), discovered last September, that infects programs written for Linux, an alternative to Microsoft's Windows.

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