The Linux Foundation is holding its End User Summit in New York City in hopes of enticing Wall Streeters to take a closer look at the open-source platform By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service The Linux Foundation is holding its first End User Summit beginning Monday in New York in an effort to bring Linux kernel developers in closer contact with users at Wall Street institutions and other major companies. "We're talking about a direct dialogue between the very highest-level Linux developers and the very highest-level Linux users," said Jim Zemlin, the organization's executive director. [ Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld's Open Sources blog. ] Right now, the latter group is likely working with the kernel community indirectly, he said: "Most very large, sophisticated users of Linux acquire it through a...
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