Buying industrial strength tech on the cheap using Linux

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Anonymous writes “A quote from the mag [Business 2.0]’s Defogger column – “Five years ago, if you had proposed running some of your company’s most critical applications on an operating system originally developed by a longhaired Finnish teenager and given away for free, your IT manager would have laughed you out of his office. That has changed, though, as Linux has become more versatile and powerful (though it’s still cheap).” Here’s a link to the whole story: http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,39964,FF.html