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Yes that's a good thing, and, yes, it is something that many enterprises and end users will benefit from. As time progresses, the stability of Linux, as well as its favorable licensing terms, may well make Linux the big winner in the virtualization game. Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian got it a bit wrong in his keynote. He argued that application availability is the key to the success of Linux, which is absolutely correct. He also argued that the Linux Standards Base (LSB) isn't enough to enable software vendors to write applications across various Linux distributions, which is also somewhat accurate. But he strayed when he said he wanted to create some magical new effort or group for which he offered no concrete details or plans that would do what the LSB does not. That is, make a standard Linux such that an application vendor can easily develop for all Linux distributions. |
