Cloud Computing: Linux conference opens with vow of end of era for Windows

Grazed from ITWorld Canada. Author: Howard Solomon.

Linux has made the operating system fight into a “two-horse race”, the head of the Linux Foundation told the opening of the annual LinuxCon conference. It’s “the end of an era” for Microsoft’s Windows, Jim Zemlin, executive director, Linux Foundation told the New Orleans gathering of developers and vendors this morning.

Web-based and cloud computing is exploding and making the shift to open source operating systems and software easier. “Linux is at a tipping point.” As head of an organization whose job is to promote Linux, Zemlin didn’t hold back…

There’s only one infrastructure as a service cloud provider not running open source software, he said – Microsoft’s Azure. The rest – such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Twitter and Facebook run one of the versions of Linux. Twitter’s use of open source is so big that it pushed back applications into the open source community, Zemlin said…

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