The Case for Unix, Linux and Open Source Software
TechWeb Unix: The Next Generation May 6, 1998	"Bracing for Intel's forthcoming 64-bit processors, the reinvigorated [Unix] platform is giving customers new choices. "Dataquest estimates worldwide sales of Unix servers will reach $22.6 billion this year, almost double the $12.8 billion generated by NT server sales.
Infoworld Focus on Freeware June 9, 1998	"A roundup of InfoWorld's freeware coverage with links to open source software resources Enterprise Computing: An in-depth look at Linux; why freeware makes business sense; and a case study on the operating system behind Titanic's special effects. Special News Report: Freeware goes corporate. Interviews: Three freeware pioneers discuss the future of open source software. Freeware Web Resources: Links to selected open source Web sites. Freeware Conferences: Links to information on selected conferences.
TechWeb Unix vs. NT -- The Right Platform May 4, 1998 (Editor-In-Chief)	"Unix, which is not just limping by on the strength of a huge installed base but rather is undergoing a renewed and zesty youthfulness as customers continue to impress on vendors that they value Unix's scalability and reliability. "Many of those vendors, which in the recent past have been highly vocal and visible in vowing their undying devotion and fealty to NT, are realizing that their customers have zero tolerance for strategies and road maps that lock them into a single way of doing things
ZDNet's 'InfoBeads ISP Hardware and Software Purchases - Big Names Need Not Apply	Over 50% of ISPs build their own machines from parts rather than buying a machine hardware and OS pre-configured. Over 25% of ISPs use Linux.
InfoWorld Freeware goes corporate April 20, 1998	"Some corporate users are not fully informed about the state of freeware and wrongly assume that you always get what you pay for "The shifting attitude is due in part to a growing recognition among corporate users that they already rely on freeware to run their Web sites and e-mail systems. "International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates that in 1997 revenues for commercially supported freeware client and server operating systems, such as Linux, were $140 million to $280 million, and that these revenues will grow 50 percent in 1998.
Quinn P. Coldiron Replacing Windows NT Server with Linux	Very complete article comparing NT to Linux as a server, and how to migrate from NT to Linux. Includes price comparison between NT and Linux solutions (software only, not counting machine) for 100 users: NT: $20,995.00, Linux: $268.00.
John Kirch Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX	"In this paper, Microsoft Windows NT Server is compared to UNIX. "The main focus of the comparison is on the areas of functionality, reliability, system management, and performance. "Even insignificant changes to a Windows NT configuration require or request a shutdown and reboot in order to make the changes take effect. "I heard from one reader who said that at his site, Linux on a 486 is outperforming Windows NT on a 200MHz Pentium, and he has Linux machines that have been running without interruption since before Windows NT 4.0 was released. "I also heard from enterprise-class sites where Linux is considered a proven choice, with source-code accessibility outweighing the dubious advantage of more traditional vendor support. "'I know three companies that are silently putting more and more into UNIX . . . at the expense of NT, simply because NT falls over too often,' says Peter Flynn, a consultant in Cork, Ireland. NT is known to crash too frequently for many IT manager's tastes. Typical causes are memory access violations and I/O errors.
RedHat Sizing the Linux Market - March 1998	"...between 5,000,000 and 10,500,000 active Linux users.
InfoWorld 1997 Best Technical Support Award: Linux user community.	The online support via Usenet, Web pages, and IRC is far better than anything that you can get from a commercial vendor, as far as resolving real-world problems. "With most commercial software, you pay and still don't get any support. Many times [the vendors] deny that there are bugs in their software.

Support for Linux and Open Source Software
News.Com Linux gains converts May 6, 1998	Corel will post free Linux-based development tools, Linux NC source. Interbase will post to the Web a free version of its InterBase 4.0 database server Netscape will release the source code for the Directory Software Developer's Kit.
Slashdot RedHat Scores at Comdex! April 22, 1998	"Today at Comdex promptly at 11:30a.m. RedHat started handing out free CDs. by 11:32 the line was again a few hundred people long!
O'Reilly Linux Ports: One Body Running on Many Legs	Discusses Linux running on Intel, Motorola 68K, Digital Alpha, Sun SPARC and UltraSparc, PowerPC, MIPS, Fujitsu AP1000+ (massively multiprocessing supercomputer) and Intel 8086.
www.SSC.com/lj/ Linux Journal	The Premier Linux Magazine
Eric S. Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar	"[An] analysis of how and why the Linux development model works Influenced Netscape's decision to release Communicator 5.0 in source
Web Review Measuring the Impact of Free Software	Extensive article on Open Source Software. "the real [Internet] headquarters exist only in cyberspace, in a worldwide, distributed community of developers who build on each other's work by sharing not only ideas but the source code that implements those ideas. Examples of critical, Open Source software in use: BIND, sendmail, Apache, Perl, Linux.

When reliability matters...
Look who's using Apache and Unix (who perhaps would perfer you didn't know.)	Microsoft Moral Defense Website Windows95.COM HotMail - Now owned by Microsoft, has been unable to port to NT at this time.