In deutlichen Worten hat Jim Zemlin, Geschäftsführer der Linux Foundation, gegenüber InfoWorld seine Meinung zu Suns Betriebssystem Solaris geäußert. "Linux und Microsoft Windows sind die Zukunft, nicht Unix oder Solaris", erklärte Zemlin. Es gebe kaum neue Solaris-Installationen, immer mehr Solaris-Anwender würden aus Kostengründen zu Linux migrieren, OEM-Hersteller wendeten sich von Solaris ab, und Sun sei in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten.
Sometimes a consortium can play a smaller supportive role that is really powerful. Helping people and organizations to pull together in the same direction can accomplish amazing things. It’s very gratifying.
The Linux Foundation, in concert with several well-known industry names (hint: they start with letters like I and G), has hired a key contributor to the Linux kernel development community, the system administrator for kernel.org. It’s an important position. kernel.org is crucial to the Linux kernel’s collaborative development environment. It is the actual physical space — in cyberspace — where kernel developers get their work done. Without it, nothing happens.
The workplace, more and more, is changing, and with this change comes a whole new set of rules.
The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’re being supplanted by newer and better tools, newer and better ways of working. The old rules are being broken, and new ones are emerging.