Red Hat executive Mark de Visser explains that most enterprise CIOs have either deployed Linux for mission-critical work, or at least have a strategy in place. He also covers inhibitors to Linux adoption in the enterprise, Red Hat\'s focus on certain vertical markets, customer demands and more in part one of this question-and-answer interview.

Linux and open source offer the cost advantage of the software being free, and that\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s important for Indian people who are flocking to Linux.

According to the study, IT buyers will use Linux to take advantage of lower-cost, higher-performance Intel-based servers and to avoid \"premium-priced proprietary systems.\" Eventually, systems running Linux will displace systems based on Unix (news - web sites) and RISC processors.

IBM\'s Microelectronics division announced on Tuesday it will offer a PDA blueprint aimed at fostering the development of new versions of handhelds based on its PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista Software\'s Linux. The companies are exhibiting their wares at this week\'s LinuxWorld trade show in New York.

The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become No. 2 after Windows in the next year or so. The bad news is that its growth does not look to be as explosive as some advocates might have hoped.

Maybe we\'re taking the whole recycling thing too far, but the LinuxWorld editors decided to do a little archive-diving for the most interesting, popular, controversial and recyclable Linux stories of 2002. As a year-end treat, we\'ve posted our list of standout stories here and added a few insights from the authors, as well.

A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers who had been working on competing software.

I have watched with some bemusement the overall trend of the articles that are coming out on Linux in the enterprise, and not just the ones from ELF. What Linux needs, these articles intone, is more applications to be successful. If only there were more applications for Linux, pundits and corporate IT people have said, then it could not help but be more successful.

Help for managers who want to undertake their own TCO study. We look at three current real-world scenarios to learn what elements should be included in TCO calculations.

After watching Microsoft closely for the last eighteen months or so, I\'ve got to disagree. Microsoft\'s biggest threat isn\'t Linux, OpenOffice, or any piece of software at all--its themselves. Over the last eighteen months two distinctly different Microsoft cultures have emerged, often in opposition to each other.