USA Today wrote about Linux’s increasing popularity a couple weeks ago (story has some good examples of companies switching to Linux):
In recent months, companies and government agencies, from Wall Street to Hollywood and from Europe to Asia, have embraced Linux, adding to its legitimacy. Corporate backers of Linux, which is free, multiply as they stake out territory around the fastest-maturing operating system ever.
Already popular as an inexpensive driver of Web pages, e-mail systems and computer servers on the edges of corporate networks, Linux has begun seeping into corporate data centers where serious computing takes place.
