All days I read articles, news, opinions, work requests etc. about the IT world, and more I think this could be true: Linux is growing a lot, expecially on the Enterprise Market.
Today I've read a news that (in my opinion) could be the real key for a Linux explosion: the Free Standards Group, a non-profit technology group in San Francisco, plans to announce the Linux Standards Base 2.0, or LSB, as a way of ensuring that software programs written for one Linux variant will work with others. The agreement is aimed at preventing Linux from splintering into varying and competing distributions, as happened years ago with the Unix operating system.
This is the biggest limit of Linux now... too many distributions on the air, with less cooperation between each other. For a company, planning to release a program that must be tested between all the distributions on the air could be a big cost. If a standard will emerge, this could be solved soon.
This is wonderful... I think we must stay tuned on the Linux world, we've not to be unprepared for the future.