Linux Operating System Moving into Library Market.(Brief Article)

Ex Libris integrates platform in ALEPH 500 System, BASCOM initiates donation service for the hardware poor

Up until now, the library technology market--and indeed most other computer markets as well--has long been the stronghold of the Microsoft Windows platform. Now, however, the global dominance of Microsoft is being challenged by several new potential platforms, including the Linux-based thin server solutions marketed by BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc. Linux is throwing down the gauntlet in hopes of stealing away a bit of the Windows market share. BASCOM is taking a similar tack as AT&T did when saturating the market with UNIX more than three decades ago. While not truly following AT&T's lead and giving the hardware and software away, BASCOM nonetheless has set up a means by which libraries and others may …