Linux shows its mettle when it comes to new cloud and edge applications


We’re only two years off the 30th anniversary of the Linux kernel, which gave the open source software movement a turbo boost. At the annual Open Source Summit Europe run by the Linux Foundation this week in Lyon, France, Data Economy attended to find out how open source will address the evolving needs of cloud, edge and IoT connectivity.
The first time this writer saw Linux creator Linus Torvalds give a presentation about open source it was at an Informix database conference in Seattle in 1998, and the big news from that event was that Informix had introduced an open source version of its database. Not that long after the event IBM acquired Informix to confirm its own interest in supporting the open source development community, as well as making money out of it.
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