Linux Foundation: Shaping our software-defined future
Over the past decade, Linux has gone from scrappy insurgent to mainstream choice for the enterprise data center. Linux has ruled the cloud from the beginning, and while it flopped on the desktop, it has an 83 percent share of smartphones in the form of Android, which is built on the Linux kernel. Plus, Linux pretty much owns the embedded market, from TVs to cars to new IoT devices.
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, has watched these triumphs up close during his 10-year tenure with the organization. During that time, the Linux Foundation has quietly expanded to encompass 26 collaborative projects, including such marquee ventures as Cloud Foundry, Node.js, OpenDaylight, and Xen.
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