Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

How the Linux Foundation, users, developers, and member companies collaborate and intersect

Joe Alexander from Bull has a great “interview” up on Bull’s website that talks about how the Linux Foundation, users, developers, and the LF member companies all collaborate and intersect at varying levels. Joe covers hardening Linux for enterprise mission critical but moves to discuss how Linux has “crossed the chasm”. He also describes why and where the new LF “weather forecast” came from and how Linux requires a ‘forecast’ that is a bit different from other “roadmap driven” operating systems.

I found this to be a great viewpoint and even better to see it on Bull’s website giving testament to a foundation that in my opinion is kicking off some great working after the merger.

http://www.bull.com/opensource/enterpriselinux.html

One might wonder how proprietary OS vendors can compete over the long-term with the breath, depth, passion and quality of the Linux development community.