With the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There are a lot of clouds out there right now, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, thinks the rain is going to be good, particularly for Linux.
“Even though 2008 was in recession, the Linux platform did well, and it is growing faster than other platforms,” Zemlin told us during an interview.
“Linux definitely has critical mass, and you use Linux ten times a day and you don’t even know it. So in 2009, we expect to see a bit of growth. It is not going to be a boom year for anybody, but at the end of the day, Linux is positioned to do well.”