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As the annual LinuxWorld conference begins, The Wall Street Journal has a warning for open source developers: pay attention to the needs of corporate customers. According to the Journal article, some corporate customers, including Tommy Hilfiger, have switched to Windows from Linux and other open source tools, because of reliability concerns. The paper also reports that both Red Hat and Novell - which specialize in selling Linux installations and service plans to corporate customers - have experienced slower sales recently. Can Linux prove the sceptics wrong? The open-source model "is maturing and it's working," David Patrick, a vice president at Novell, told the Journal . "Enterprise customers are participating. People are really feeling very comfortable with that as a model."Linux users demanding more originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:29:53 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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