Evans Data Corporation said its research indicated the number of enterprises that have dabbled with Linux in their server rooms had grown dramatically over the last year.
EDC's bi-annual survey of enterprise software developers in the U.S. found a 24 percent jump in the number of respondents employed by enterprises using Linux on corporate servers over the last 12 months.
However, while the number of enterprises running Linux in the server room appears to have increased, EDC figures indicated its depth of usage with enterprises has remained static over the same period.
The number of developers that reported that Linux was meeting more than 50 percent of theire organisations' server needs remains at a relatively low six percent.
As an Australian software company having transferred most of our core development over to the Linux platform, we are finding that most IT Departments have abosolutely no issue with us deploying our Enterprise Wide Search & Retrieval Engine on a dedictaed LINUX Server in their traditionally robust AIX/SOLARIS/Mainframe envrionments.
In fact some of our Government clients are encouraging the fact that we operate on such a scale on the LINUX platform and can deploy the solution to deliver accessibility thoughout their enterpirse.
Three years ago though, when we first started approaching various organisations with our LINUX option, most often than not clients would ask some clarifying questions as to the certification of our Enterprise Search Engine on the LINUX platform and to what scale had it delivered value at other client reference sites.