If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that today’s shaky economy presents some new challenges to those of us in the technology sector. We are entering the “Age of Advantage.” This means Linux, like all software serving the e-business economy, must demonstrate and deliver economic benefits: efficiency in resource utilization, speedy time to market, quick time to value, reducing complexity, increasing interoperability, and simplifying management of heterogeneous environments in an extended enterprise. These are the standards to which ISV (Independent Software Vendors) and in-house software developers will be held.
If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that today’s shaky economy presents some new challenges to those of us in the technology sector. We are entering the “Age of Advantage.” This means Linux, like all software serving the e-business economy, must demonstrate and deliver economic benefits: efficiency in resource utilization, speedy time to market, quick time to value, reducing complexity, increasing interoperability, and simplifying management of heterogeneous environments in an extended enterprise. These are the standards to which ISV (Independent Software Vendors) and in-house software developers will be held.
Encouragingly, Linux has significant advantages in these areas, particularly in servers and embedded systems — but not as the be-all and end-all software tsunami that will wash away all that preceded it. Linux is a process, not an event, and as such, it is devoid of “tipping points” and “silver bullets.”
The challenge faced by the development community is to continually advance and enhance Linux’s natural advantages and turn them into business advantages.
A Call for “Code Without Compromise”
If business utility is what the future of Linux is all about, then applications are the key. The developer community has done yeoman work in creating and stabilizing Linux, developing advanced features and functionality, and getting it to run on many hardware platforms. But the time has come to begin the much more arduous and critical task that will take Linux to…
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