Bang for the Buck: Entry Linux Servers Keep Windows and Unix ...

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 7, 2006 9:15 AM EDT
IT Jungle; By Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Only 15 years ago, Linus Torvalds was annoyed enough about the expense of the just-commercialized Unix workstations and systems on the market that he started to create his own operating system, one that had a look and feel very much like Unix. Back then, proprietary operating systems dominated the midrange of the server market, mainframes ruled the high end, and there was no such thing as an entry server, but rather a NetWare file system for file sharing and network printing. How the world has changed.

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