It is the product of an ongoing collaboration among the best programmers in the industry coming together to create an operating system that can work on a variety of hardware platforms. Linux has been quite popular as the operating system for web servers, file and print servers, and various Internet access infrastructure servers, both in enterprises and in the NetGen marketplace. It is, however, on a path to becoming a viable enterprise operating system, capable of running a variety of workloads requiring high scalability and industrial strength. No other hardware platform can offer customers the flexibility of deploying hundreds of Linux images on a single machine. This flexibility enables customers to benefit from reduced operational costs through centralization of backup and recovery and other administrative tasks.
Businesses have many server platforms from which to choose.
Each server platform offers businesses a different style of computing to meet their needs. Businesses will evaluate a number of factors when selecting a hardware platform. Integrating multiple applications and databases across a spectrum of operating systems, running on multiple servers, each with unique management requirements, distributed geographically, and crossing company borders. Responding to the business impacts of delivering performance and high availability in environments where peak demands and business growth may be difficult to predict and there are substantial demand spikes. Providing floor space to house a large number of servers.