IBM Linux Line
June 18, 2009
A concise monthly report of news and insight of interest to IT managers responsible for Linux deployments and the hands-on Linux community.
Linux News
Linux is the fastest growing operating system in terms of percentage growth of new unit subscriptions as well as revenue growth, according to "Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads," the IDC white paper authored by Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC. Moreover, Linux is moving to the core of business and is now considered a suitable candidate for deployments of business-critical workloads.
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc.-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The Fedora Project, which now has almost 29,000 project members, aims to release a new complete, general-purpose, no-cost operating system approximately every six months.
Virtual Bridges' partner ecosystem has increased dramatically since the company formed a partnership with IBM and Canonical, the company reports. In December 2008, IBM and Canonical announced they were teaming with Virtual Bridges to provide the company's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology as part of a Microsoft-alternative desktop offering, and since then the partner network for Virtual Bridges offerings has more than doubled.