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[News] Why Linux Turned Out an Exceptional Development Success

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Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects

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| Linus Torvalds needs no introduction in operating systems or open-source 
| circles. He's the creator, muse and chief developer of the Linux operating 
| system. Torvalds started Linux while he was in college in 1991. Today, Linux 
| is the foundation of multibillion-dollar companies including Oracle, Novell 
| and Red Hat. It's used on computers from small office servers and home office 
| desktops to the New York Stock Exchange.     
| 
| Torvalds does this by managing a self-selected team of over a thousand 
| developers around the world, united only by a mailing list (the Linux Kernel 
| Mailing List) and a source-code management system (Git). Torvalds herds Linux 
| programming cats from multiple major companies, such as IBM, Intel and SGI, 
| as well as the occasional stereotypical developer programming in a basement.    
| 
| How does he do it? 
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http://www.cio.com/article/441215/Five_Things_Linus_Torvalds_Has_Learned_About_Managing_Software_Projects

"The number of developers working on improving Linux vastly exceeds the number
of Microsoft developers working on Windows NT."

                --Paul Maritz, Microsoft
 

Recent:

Linux Market to Triple by 2012

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| Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based 
| server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more 
| than triple between 2007 and 2012.  
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| A market for a platform is not the same as an ecosystem for it, which is much 
| larger in that it includes the cost of people and third-party software and 
| services for the code that runs atop the platform. So the R&M Linux market 
| numbers might seem a little small. In any event, the consultancy pegged the 
| Linux product and services market for Linux running on servers and clients 
| (but not embedded systems) at $2.4 billion in 2007.     
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html


Linux kernel developers have tripled in number

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| The Linux Foundation (LF) has published a study on Linux mainline kernel 
| development. According to LF, the number of Linux kernel developers has 
| tripled since 2005, with many more companies contributing to the process 
| (including, potentially, the latest new LF member, Adobe).   
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6925891609.html
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