Fear holds back Linux adoption, Feb 24, 2003

AMR said that Linux should be considered for non-mission-critical applications where cost and reliability are critical factors, adding that corporate policies should be refined with guidelines for evaluating and using open source software.

McNealy says his company can embrace Linux while still selling its own Unix operating system, called Solaris. On Feb.18, McNealy, in an e-mail interview, responded to questions from BusinessWeek Correspondent Jim Kerstetter regarding Linux and Sun's tricky balancing act between supporting its proprietary software and getting on the open-source bandwagon.

He almost certainly has a point. Although a 1.5GHz Itanium would be faster than a 1.5GHz Pentium 4, that's not the competition it has to face. The Pentium 4 is available at twice that clockrate and the Itanium only gets to keep pace by having huge amounts of cache despite all of its clever architecture.

CrossOver Officer allows users to run Microsoft Office natively on Linux desktops. Based on the WINE Project (of which Codeweavers is a major backer), CrossOver Office is intended to allow users to run Lotus Notes, Office 2000, Office XP, Quicken and Visio 2000 inside Linux. CrossOver Office Server Edition allows organizations to host their Windows applications on Linux servers

"[Linux] is the wave of the future," said Mark Rugg, a computer technician for Logan City School District. "Due to budgeting constraints and licensing issues, Linux seems to be the only viable system."

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