Jason Pettit

In January, as thousands of Linux OS enthusiasts streamed onto the show floor and into conference sessions at the 2004 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, they caught up with an old friend who many barely recognized. The breakneck evolution of Linux into a viable environment for enterprise, research and development, and high-performance computing has converted skeptics who once dismissed the open source environment as a low-cost - and not particularly scalable - alternative to more robust and proven operating environments. To many commercial users, the earliest implementations of Linux didn't seem suited to drive anything more mission-critical than an edge server, some desktop systems, or a few specialized applications. But much has changed since those early days. Committed and enthusiastic developers have worked hard to push Linux beyond its old limitations, and the resu... (more)

Dissolving the Limits of Linux

In January, as thousands of Linux OS enthusiasts streamed onto the show floor and into conference sessions at the 2004 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, they caught up with an old friend who many barely recognized. In a span of only 12 months, Linux has evolved from an emerging technology to an operating system on the forefront of production IT deployments. The breakneck evolution of Linux into a viable environment for enterprise, research and development, and high-performance computing has converted skeptics who once dismissed the open source environment as a low-cost - and not par... (more)