Fortune 500 companies are starting to swim with the penguins, crazy as it once seemed. Next thing you know we'll have penguins on the desktop. ("

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Linux Climbs the Corporate Ladder
Businesses Begin to Embrace the Alternative to Microsoft]
By James Hamilton
[Techtv]

Aug. 27 Linux developers have good reason to celebrate when they honor the 10th birthday of the open-source operating system this month. Even critics must admit the operating system has fundamentally changed the way software is developed and proven the viability of open standards.
But far from just a symbolic, feel-good movement led by geek hobbyists, Linux has taken the tech industry by storm and become a bona fide commercial success.