Linux Will Displace Unix When It Comes To New Apps
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| Last month, Gartner analyst George Weiss predicted applications will no
| longer be developed to run on Unix.
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| [...]
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| Linux has its roots in Unix and is POSIX compliant, so converting a new
| application from one to the other will always be possible.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/last_month_gart.html
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Red Hat growth: A tale of 2,000 applications
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| Red Hat's Linux business continues to boom, even when we don't give it the
| credit that it deserves. What is the underlying reason for that growth?
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| Applications.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9791171-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone
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| The number of tested, native applications available for the Linux on
| POWER platform has grown more than 200 percent in the last two years,
| marking it as a fast-developing new IT ecosystem.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061201/0190250.html
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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