Linux and Open Source in the Academic Enterprise

摘要

Open Source Software (OSS) has made great strides toward mainstream acceptance over the past two years. However, many IT managers, both in business and academia, are still cautious about OSS. is it reliable? Is there support? Will ist last? Linux has urther complicated the issue not only becuawe its operating systems is OSS, but because it runs on inexpensive commodity hardware. Often IT managersm are hesitant to move from long trusted proprietary hardware and software and trust major projects to OSS and commodity hardware.