Enterprise Unix Roundup: Have Unix Your Way
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| Love it or hate it, McDonald's revolutionized the restaurant industry by
| creating a standardized, assembly line-created product that does not vary
| from location to location. The company has, to put it succinctly,
| commoditized the hamburger.
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| Which got me thinking: How long until someone finally figures out a way to
| really commoditize the server? And what will such a world look like?
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3727791
Windows is only seen as a commodity in one area: the 'desktop'.
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Linux is de facto OS for TV set-top boxes
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| "The major chipset manufacturers are introducing new Linux platforms
| almost monthly," said Ken Helps, managing director of Ocean Blue Software.
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| The attraction is that the Linux operating system will support
| advanced functions without requiring a license fee.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6426925&partner=eb&spacedesc=news
http://tinyurl.com/2zofx9
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
Dell leads the Linux workstation market
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| So about 15% of the workstation market is comprised of Linux machines -- far
| more than the barely traceable number of Linux desktop computers. Oddly, all
| workstation manufacturers seem to have grown in chorus. "No one workstation
| vendor seems to have benefited dramatically more or less with the growth of
| Linux, though (anecdotally) white boxes would presumably have a much higher
| penetration of Linux.
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/362/
The real measure of Linux adoption.
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| # Read the Jobs section.
| # Count how many advertisements require Linux experience.
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| [...]
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| This is real life. Real world figures. These are not manipulated statistics
| that are bent to show this or that. These are actual businesses that are
| using Linux in one form or another. This is how you know how much Linux has
| been accepted in your area of residence.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/the-real-measure-of-linux-adoption-18996
Linux Job Market Trends: Galloping Forward
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| If you’re a Linux specialist looking for the best paying area of the country,
| your best bet is – no surprise – Silicon Valley, where Linux pros make
| $96,578 (but a cup of coffee costs $11.25). Other top-paying Linux areas are
| Washington, D.C. ($86,882), Los Angeles ($86,618), and New York ($86,305).
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3697896
2007: Where the Tech Jobs Are
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| ...open source and Linux skills are very hot. "Linux is one of the fastest
| growing, if not required, then recommended skills that most of the
| sysadmins and operations people have," Melland says. "If you're a systems
| administrator and you don?t have Linux experience, you might want to seek
| that out."
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| [...]
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| All this migration to Linux and open source means that job openings are
| zooming. Based on Dice statistics, Linux as a recommended skill is up 51%
| this year, and roughly 150% in the last two years.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3649436
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