On this topic Newsletters Linux Security. We want Linux to move into the transaction space and into the mission-critical application space, which is why database and Web application serving is so important.
Enterprises tend to be heterogeneous in nature in that they have multiple operating systems.
I think that we're going to see that continue for the foreseeable future. The promise of Linux is that it is a cross-platform operating system so it has the potential to be the unifying operating system across the different sets of hardware platforms that customers have. Both have proven to be able to run with enterprise transactions on the database side and database-oriented transactions in the Web application server side. We also have a significant set of foundations like MQSeries for messaging and workflow types of applications as well as products like the Websphere EveryPlace Server. Initially it was research and market trends in 1998 when some of the research that we were doing indicated that Linux and open source were becoming very important movements.