IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing
Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM’s Linux business has been in recent months: in short, strong and growing. To give an idea of this strength, Kuznetsova reported that in the past three years, over 1,800 customers have migrated from competitive platforms to IBM, and nearly 50 percent of those IBM wins included Linux.
Amanda McPherson reports on a recent Foote Partners’ survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. and Canadian employers.
Last week, Datamation published an article on the rise in value of Linux job skills in today’s economy. Linux system administration skills are now the number 2 hottest IT job skill. In the last year, the value of Linux skills has risen 50 percent, an astounding rise in a tough economy.
Datamation has additional coverage. Hot IT Skills: Certified and Non-Certified IT Skills in Demand
It is clear from recent surveys and studies that economic factors are driving adoption of Linux and related technologies.
Why I believe in the link economy – Chris Ahearn, President, Media at Thomson Reuters
Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works.
The Associated Press are in favor of draconian distribution rights and pay-walls. Given the success of the pay-wall strategy depends upon collective participation, the opposition from Reuters could be seen as a major blow to those who support such a strategy.
Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape.
I predict this will quickly increase the interest in alternative “news” sources.
PC World reports:
Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Additional coverage by TechFlash