LINUX PIPELINE NEWSLETTER
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

In This Issue
1. Editor's Note: Open Source Is Startlingly Popular
2. Trends: Business Users Embrace Open Source
3. Trends: China Favors Home-Grown Technology Over Imports
4: Review: Linux-Based Desktops For Startups   
5. Only The Best Linux And Open-Source News
6. Voting Booth: Cast Your Vote On Open Source Java
7. Shameless Self-Promotion

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1. EDITOR'S NOTE: Open Source Is Startlingly Popular

The results of our recent survey on open source in the enterprise
will be startling even to people who already knew that open
source is popular in the mainstream. 

Business Users Embrace Open Source
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20900473

A whopping 70% of 420 business technology professionals surveyed
by InformationWeek said they use Linux, up from 56% a year ago.
Linux and Apache are now running key systems, and open source
software is competing with proprietary applications for strategic
business processes. 

Of the companies running Linux, 83% use it primarily for web or
intranet servers, with other top uses being application
development, database management, e-mail and message hosting.
Three quarters of Linux users chose it for performance and
reliability. 

The study also puts paid to the canard that support for open
source software is any more difficult to get than for proprietary
software. Businesses get support for open source from the same
vendors they're using to support proprietary technology,
companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and SAP. 

The fact that enterprises CAN get open source support from those
big vendors is likely a driver for open source's increased
mainstream adoption; like Tony Soprano said, it's tough doing
business with strangers.

Support from major vendors is good, but dependence on major
vendors is bad. And vendor independence is a major driver for the
world's largest country's adoption of Linux. China well remembers
being carved up by the major Western powers in the 19th Century,
and, in the 21st Century, it's looking to avoid dependence on
foreign technology. Linux is one of several technologies that
China is embracing as an alternative to Western standards. 

China Favors Home-Grown Technology Over Imports
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20900616


--Mitch Wagner, Editor
Linux Pipeline
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/
mailto:mwagner@cmp.com?Subject=LPNfeedback

For more commentary and links from Mitch Wagner, see Wagner's
Weblog
http://wagblog.internetweek.com

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2. TRENDS: Business Users Embrace Open Source
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20900473
70% of businesses use Linux, citing reliability, performance,
and support from major vendors.

3. TRENDS: China Favors Home-Grown Technology Over Imports
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20900616
Linux is key to China's efforts to avoid dependence on foreign
tech.

4: REVIEW: Linux-Based Desktops For Startups   
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/trends/20900509
A guide to deploying Linux desktops for a small business just
starting out, including advice on hardware, operating systems,
and applications.

5. ONLY THE BEST LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE NEWS

Linux Drives Novell Into The Black 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20900646
Revenue related to SuSE, the Linux company that Novell bought
last year, accounted for about $10 million of Novell's $293.6
million sales in the first quarter. 

OSDL Tightens Intellectual Property Tracking In Linux
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20900590

Network Associates Unveils Linux Anti-Virus   
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20900543

BEA Open Sources Web Service Development Framework   
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20800141

Chinese Startup Takes On Microsoft Office 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20800145

IBM, PeopleSoft Team Up On Linux Solutions 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20600119

Mozilla.org Posts Release Candidate 2 For Open Source Browser
Suite
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20600081

6. VOTING BOOTH: Cast Your Vote On Open Source Java
http://linuxpipeline.com/vote/java_040427.jhtml
Should Sun Microsystems release Java as open source? 

THE RESULTS SO FAR:

Yes: 76% - 282 votes out of 369
No: 24% - 87 votes.

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