Bringing *nix one step closer to the masses
Computerworld's Eric Lai wrote earlier this week about a third company looking to help Windows-networked firms operated Linux-based servers through a common platform, perhaps taking the fear out of *nix boxes within Windows shops. This software package, Likewise, joins services from Centrify and Vintela that have similar functionality.
In my estimation, this will bring a lot more companies closer to handling large-scale hosting of their own Websites to their own server farms, especially as bandwidth continues to cheapen on the whole. While you can obviously host a site on a Windows-based servers, a significant portion of the hosted world is done on *nix servers, and a lot of site managers have expertise working on those platforms.
