The Role of Linux Servers and Commercial Workloads

Al Gillen, The Linux Foundation, Elaina Stergiades, The Linux Foundation, and Brett Waldman, The Linux Foundation

4/09/2008
(Original Publish Date: 4/2/2008)

Increasingly, deployments of the Linux server operating system are expanding from infrastructure-oriented workloads to more commercially-oriented workloads such as database, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other general business processing, workloads that historically have been the domain of Microsoft Windows and Unix. Where once Linux was seen by customers primarily as a low-cost infrastructure solution, it is now increasingly viewed as a solution for wider and more critical business deployments.