Sunday, January 22, 2012

Linux gains likely good for the Valley - Dallas Business Journal:

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Dice, the largest IT-only job listingxs board on the Web, has seen a 190 percentf increase in the number of jobs requiriny experiencewith Linux. At LinuxWorld, , and a host of smallef Silicon Valley companies all announceed new Linux productsor programs. , whicjh has a large presence inSilicom Valley, announced that it was opening up the code for its Cloudscapew database. "Open source is bad news for , especialluy if it moves to the saysScot Melland, president and CEO of Dice. "Ift gives San Jose an advantage in its rivalrwith Seattle. ... If you are an applicatiobn developer today you should get Linucx experience as soon as possible Linux is now a mainstrea moperating system.
" Use of Linuzx is expected to overtake the Macintosh operating system later this year, and that movemenrt into the mainstream is making its In addition to providing an alternative to the Windowd operating system for developing software, Linux also is less expensivwe to deploy and it's creating jobs. It also strengthenzs Silicon Valley's hand againsty its traditionalrival Microsoft, which has the most to lose from Open-source programs are those whose underlying code is publiclg available, allowing thousands of software engineers the worl d over the chance to pick it find the flaws and write new The first LinuxWorld conference took plac e in San Jose in 1999.
The gatherinh quickly outgrew San Jose'ds McEnery Convention Center. It now meets in San Francisco, where nearlyh 11,000 people attended this year, and in otheer locations in Europe, Asia and Canada, says Warwick Davies, group vice president at , the producers of the conference. At this year'ss conference in San Francisco, companiess large and small were lining up to announc e new products or services that are basexdon Linux. IBM released the code for Cloudscape, its simple database program. The Armonk, N.Y., company hopes to spur developers to use the progranm to create new products using the Javacomputer language.
"W e are trying to promote Javaand Cloudscape," says Jonathan Prial, an IBM vice "IBM is committed to Java; it allows applications to run on everythinh from Windows to Linux." Intel was showinf off its 64-bit Xeon which operates at speeds of up to 3.6 GHz. The only operatingv system so far that can take full advantagse ofthe 64-bit processor? Linux. Microsoft is working on it, but isn'yt there yet. H-P broke groun d by announcing that it will offer the firsty laptoprunning Linux. The Busineszs Notebook Nx5000 will sellfor $1,199. Microsofty itself had signed up for exhibition spacde atthe .
Its name was in the But it backed out at the last A spokesman for the company did not returnn atelephone call. Among the smaller tech companies takinhg advantage of the Linux crazeis SnapAppliance, a storag maker based in San Jose that was recently purchase by Milpitas-based for $100 By using open-source software, Snap engineers don't have to stary from scratch when they need a new softwars driver or program. They can use one that someonse elsehas developed. That saves time and says Jim Sherhart, product manager. "It really allows us to get to markeg quicker.
" The ability to borrowe and share is a key benefit tousing Linux, says Larry Augustin, a partnee at of San Francisco. "Build things that are he advised developersat LinuxWorld. "Don't Spend your efforts and dollars where they arerealluy needed."

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