{"id":626,"date":"2007-02-08T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/02\/08\/is-windows-losing-out-linux-gaining\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:04:23","slug":"is-windows-losing-out-linux-gaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/02\/08\/is-windows-losing-out-linux-gaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Windows losing out &#038; Linux gaining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The penguin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come of age. What began as a <strong><em>battle between proprietary and open source<\/em><\/strong> Linux software, started by geeks around the world, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plain tech rhetoric anymore. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now a <strong>mainstream commercial platform<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a technology that enterprises are taking very seriously and looking at as a major cost-effective solution that has <strong>scalability<\/strong> and a great future roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>free<\/strong> software that can be downloaded from the Web, Linux has a source code that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s open and therefore available for anyone<strong> to use, modify, and redistribute freely<\/strong>. Proprietary Unix and Windows operating systems aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t available for such tweaking.<\/p>\n<p>With the movement getting the <strong>support<\/strong> of IT biggies such as <strong>IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard,<\/strong> which have devoted many of their engineers to work with the open source movement, enterprises are now showing confidence in adopting Linux. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no more now about getting your software free \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<strong> in India the dominating Linux brands<\/strong> are <strong>Red Hat and Suse<\/strong> from Novell.<\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/News\/News_By_Industry\/Infotech\/Is_Windows_losing_out__Linux_gaining\/articleshow\/1559206.cms\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The penguin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come of age. What began as a battle between proprietary and open source Linux software, started by geeks around the world, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plain tech rhetoric anymore. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now a mainstream commercial platform \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a technology that enterprises are taking very seriously and looking at as a major cost-effective solution that has scalability and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,12],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}