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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   18 Feb 2002  13:16:37
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    See also: [27]last week's LWN.
 
 Leading items and editorials
 
    The changing perception of Linux. It has been interesting to watch,
    over the years, as the way Linux is seen outside the community has
    evolved. When LWN started publishing at the beginning of 1998, the few
    people who had actually heard of Linux dismissed it as a hobbyist's
    toy. Things are different now; it's worthwhile to look at just how
    different.
 
    Those wondering if Linux is being taken seriously in the business
    world might well find their answer in the absurd vision of Sun CEO
    Scott McNealy in a penguin suit. A better example, however, may be
    found by looking at the treatment of IBM and its commitment to Linux.
    A year and a half ago, we could read things like [28]this Gartner
    pronouncement:
 
      But the Linux movement is fraught with potential hazards if
      companies such as IBM act too hastily. For example, the lack of
      standards, frequent releases, and variety of Linux distributions on
      Intel and various RISC implementations will increase the complexity
      of support. In addition, the earlier investment craze over Linux
      has died out, and most Linux-only companies are struggling
      financially.
 
    Now fast-forward to a couple of weeks ago, and consider [29]this
    interesting (but subscription-only) article in the Economist about Sam
    Palmisano taking the helm at IBM:
 
      Mr. Palmisano was also involved with another of IBM's cunning
      strategic moves: its embrace of Linux, the free, open-source
      operating system that is maintained by a vast collective of
      programmers who collaborate online.
 
    That which was once "fraught with potential hazards" is now seen as a
    "cunning strategic move." Linux is now seen, from far away, as a smart
    business strategy for a large, established technology company. The
    world has changed.
 
    Something interesting has happened over the last six months or so.
    Many people clearly expected Linux to disappear with much of the
    dotcom economy; Microsoft explicitly compared Linux with dotcom
    business models. Many of the dotcoms are long gone at this point, and
    people are beginning to notice that Linux is not only still around,
    but it has gotten stronger. Linux (and free software in general) were
    never just another dotcom fad of the month. They not only have great
    value to offer; they are also well insulated from the fortunes of any
    particular company that chooses to work with them. Free software is
    now taken seriously, but we still have only begun to see where it will
    go.
 
    Sun wakes up. Many in the Linux community have wondered when Sun would
    figure out that Linux isn't just going to go away. The company seems
    to be opening its eyes at last; here's [30]Sun's press release on its
    new Linux strategy. Interestingly, this announcement happened the week
    after LinuxWorld.
 
    The points in the announcement are vague and interesting. The first of
    those is that Sun "will ship a full implementation of the Linux
    operating system." That looks very much as if Sun is getting into the
    distribution business. We asked Sun's PR people what company was up
    to, only to be told "we're not clarifying." We'll have to wait and see
    what really comes out.
 
    A Sun distribution could be an interesting force in the market. Sun,
    of course, has recently lost a number of high-profile customers to
    Linux in a very public way. Perhaps the company feels that, if its
    customers are going to switch to Linux, maybe they will be inclined
    toward a distribution with the Sun brand. A path which makes it easy
    to stick with the same vendor and to integrate Linux and Solaris
    systems might help Sun retain a number of those customers.
 
    It is a bit of a stretch to imagine Sun as a major Linux distributor,
    however. There are many established players in that market whose
    support of the system seems rather more wholehearted than Sun's.
 
    Next, Sun will be expanding the Cobalt line of Linux appliances, and
    adding a set of "low-end general purpose Linux/x86-based systems." In
    other words, Sun is getting into the cheap, commodity Linux systems
    business that has proved so difficult for a number of other vendors.
    The Sun name should help, but it still is a hard business to be in. If
    Sun envisions extending its Linux support to its higher-end SPARC
    systems, however, it might get somewhere.
 
    Finally, there is a vague promise to offer "key components" of Solaris
    to the Linux community. Once again, the company refused to tell us
    just what those components might be, or what sort of licensing would
    be used.
 
    So we will have to wait and see what Sun really has in mind - it's
    mostly words at the moment, and vague words at that. Sun played a
    large part in the commercialization of Unix, and it may yet have a
    large role to play in the Linux world as well. It will be interesting
    to see how it plays out.
 
    Dave Whitinger joins LWN.net. We are pleased to announce that Dave
    Whitinger, co-founder of Linux Today, has agreed to join the LWN
    staff. His official title is "Director of Business Development," but
    he will be handling a variety of tasks from arranging partnerships to
    posting content on the site. Dave brings a wide variety of talents and
    a lot of ideas to LWN.net; expect to see a great many improvements as
    he makes his presence felt.
 
    Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
      * [31]Security: Multiple security problems with SNMP
      * [32]Kernel: Preemptible kernel patch merged; ALSA to be merged;
        How synchronous should sync() be?
      * [33]Distributions: Sun Linux?; The return of Halloween &
        DragonLinux.
      * [34]Development: The jack Audio Connection Kit, Standalone ZODB
        1.0, Aide 0.8 GNU FDL 1.2 draft, GNOME 1.4.1rc1, GSview 4.2, new
        Gimps, Gnopher 0.2.
      * [35]Commerce: HP Issues Statement on Compaq Merger; E*TRADE
        Migrates to Linux; IBM launches low-end eServer.
      * [36]Letters: Counting security updates; system auditing.
 
    ...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
 
    This Week's LWN was brought to you by:
      * [37]Jonathan Corbet, Executive Editor
 
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