Mainstream U.S. Media Discovers Ubuntu Linux
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| The VAR Guy was flipping though his Sunday morning paper when he spotted an
| article about Ubuntu Linux. He took a few more sips of coffee to perk up and
| make sure his eyes weren’t deceiving him. Sure enough, Ubuntu had made the
| leap into the mainstream media — earning coverage in Newsday, the eight
| largest newspaper in the nation. Has Ubuntu reached its tipping point with
| consumers?
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/09/mainstream-media-discovers-ubuntu-linux/
The tipping point is already well behind. From here onwards, Linux grows very
fast (not just on desktops).
Related:
Open source business model reaching tipping point
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| Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity,
| becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone
| could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as
| the poster child for open source but few other “pure” open source companies
| rose up to that level. Sun has gradually been making its vast portfolio of
| software open source under various licenses, embracing the notion of FOSS
| (Free and Open Source Software). “Volume drives everything, and developers
| are picking free and open source software,” Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has
| said.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7674
IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT
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| The future of IT is clearly about the efficiencies and agility of the
| grid/utility/Live/fabric/cloud/SOA/WOA thing. There can be no turning back. I
| believe Nick Carr is coming out with a book on this soon, The Big Switch:
| Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google and IT, and IT is by no means
| irrelevant this time.
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| IBM's Blue Cloud, arriving in the first half of 2008, will use IBM
| BladeCenter servers, a Linux operating system, Xen-based virtualization and
| the company's own Tivoli management software. Nothing about this is terribly
| new.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/54666-ibm-s-blue-cloud-the-tipping-point-for-enterprise-it
Amsterdam mulls the Linux desktop
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| This shift in Dutch city government toward Linux and open source
| lends credibility to graduate student David B. Rankin recent
| hypothesis that desktop Linux may be nearing a tipping point
| within government settings, after which adoption can be expected
| to accelerate.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9492246163.html
Linux and automotive: reaching a tipping point
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| This insightful guest column anticipates the emergence
| of embedded Linux as a key margins driver for the
| automotive industry, due to its ability to run
| "driver-assist" applications perceived as
| "high-value" by consumers.
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http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2472259852.html
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