City mulls open source software, Apr 30, 2003

The [New York] City Council’s Select Committee on Technology in Government scheduled a hearing today on whether city agencies should be required to buy so-called open source software.

Linux is reaching new heights in scale as SuSE Linux Tuesday has created a Linux software server geared to power the voice, data and wireless applications offered by telecommunications carriers

The availability of 64-bit Linux across all of these architectures makes for particularly interesting possibilities. In the enterprise, Linux is now routinely implemented for applications with higher importance on systems ranging from x86 PCs to IBM mainframes. In a CIO magazine survey of 375 information executives, 54 percent of the respondents said that open source would be their dominant server platform within the next five years.

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