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Forbes on Linux

Posted by michael on from the jumping-on-the-bandwagon dept.

mvdwege writes "It appears that Forbes is doing a Linux Special. Lots of nice articles showing off the state of the art in Linux development today. It's nice to see Linux get some good mainstream press without hype or FUD. A very objective treatment that might definitely make some people think."

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  1. somebody woke up by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    well so t seems. Though till now it was a geek geek thing, linux users were a bunchof social outcasts and what not.. finally we have THE FORBES taking interest. This had to happen someday. After all the business community wants to mae money, and in a slowdown scenario like now linux makes sense. To some extent slowdown has been a blessing in disguise with cash strapped managers wanting to take the buck an extra mile.

    This is definately a first and really a great achievement... and the goal now is to sustain linux rather that develop!

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  2. Re:Good series - what motive? by oever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't be so paranoid!

    This series is very good. It takes away part of the fears that executives have of Linux. Especially the article on the retailer going Linux.

    The readers will get mixed feeling from this article though: "These programmers are weird, they can't make money from this. But it is free software and it seems to work."

    I'm not sure reading about Linux is healthy for executives.

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  3. You're wrong by Subcarrier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Forbes target audience will be very interested in anything that can cut costs for companies.

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  4. "Never" by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The word "never" should never be used in a technology news article. Well, maybe if they're referring to OS/2... ;)

    It's hard to believe the author of this article has been a technology news writer for at least a decade. "Linux will never be..." "Linux will never gain..." She doesn't mean never. I think she means in the short term (5 yrs maybe), which seems like an eternity in the tech industry. But to say something, especially something new, will never take over a market or will never be used for critical systems is simply rediculous. By this author's writing, some execs, if they're smart enough to read that far into the articles, will think Linux has mostly run its course and found its place in the industry since it'll "never" get beyond certain levels. By her logic, if she wrote an article about Microsoft back in 1985, she'd have said "Windows will never be a serious player in the server market."

    This author's writing is incredibly irresponsible.

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