Linux in 2004 Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

New technology platform conceived in the early 1990s, Linux has become a force to be reckoned with in the operating system market. At first, Linux was dismissed as a renegade option is only technology geeks. By 2004, however, Linux has exploded in the study and is currently being used in the enterprise, running everything from web servers for mission-critical financial transactions. Linux was, at the same time, the soul of the open source movement, the bread and butter specialist companies like Novell and Red Hat, a strategic tool for the big players such as IBM and Sun; real threat to the market leader, Microsoft; and tactical alternatives for governments around the world. Linux new and multiple roles in the technology landscape makes it a complicated case in which to study a wide range of business problems. "Hide
by Pankaj Ghemawat, Brian Subirana, Christine Pham Source: Harvard Business School 35 pages. Publication Date: July 14, 2004. Prod. #: 705407-PDF-ENG

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