Expo Broadens Focus As Linux's Popularity Spurs Other Projects

Posted by tadelste on Aug 11, 2005 6:49 AM EDT
Investor's Business Daily (subscription); By KEN SPENCER BROWN
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This week's tech conference in San Francisco still went by the name LinuxWorld. But the Linux operating system was only a part of what went on there. Attendees pitched databases, software to manage customer data, security add-on programs and scores of other products — some of it compatible with Linux's rival, Microsoft Windows. Rather than zero in on Linux, the conference has broadened its focus to include all open-source software — code that's developed and shared freely. Though Linux is still the poster child of open-source programming, it's far from alone.

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