Whats the short-term future of Linux?
From a short-term standpoint, Linux is having tremendous success. If you look at it from a server standpoint, big business is adopting it in a very strong fashion. When you look around the world at what’s going on in Asia around economic development, job creation and business creation, Linux, open source and open standards play a key role. When you look in Europe and you look at what the European Union and different countries are involved with, from an open-source, source-code availability and the social, cultural aspects of open source through open standards, I think there’s going to be tremendous growth and a tremendous push from the governments in Europe and in Asia. So strong price/performance in the U.S. and price/performance and government involvement, both social culturally and economic development, in Asia and Europe will spur Linux to have great success in the enterprise space. Other areas also suggest a strong push for Linux: nine of the 10 largest supercomputers are running
