Yaacov Cohen

The move to Enterprise Linux is accelerating. Enterprise Linux, provided by RedHat, SuSE, and a number of open source projects, supports clustering, load balancing, and high availability. Yahoo is using Linux with the MySQL open source database, the fastest growing database in the industry, and Hewlett Packard recently announced support for an enterprise stack of Linux, JBoss, and a MySQL database. While companies are motivated to migrate to Linux, they are encountering significant obstacles. These include running the thousands of lines of existing Visual Basic .NET and C# code on Linux as well as implementing a full-running system without interrupting productivity. According to Forrester, more than half of today's enterprise development activity is being done in .NET, and many firms are experiencing a .NET barrier in moving to Linux. The Horrors of PortingUntil re... (more)