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and e-commerce companies to choose Linux
over Microsoft's Windows.
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It would probably runs best on Linux and on FreeBSD
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and the reason is the
communities around those operating systems
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are also the communities that
contribute the most back to Apache, right?
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And there were also the operating systems
that Internet service providers
:41:26
started using very heavily as well
:41:29
and Internet service providers really liked Apache
:41:32
because it allowed them to do
:41:34
a lot of different things
that some of the commercial web servers didn't
:41:38
such as the ability to host more than
one web site on a single box, which clearly
:41:43
if you are an ISP and you would have 40,000 users
:41:46
and they all want their web site,
:41:47
is gonna be pretty important to you.
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one of the key factors in the growth of Linux was
:41:54
the creation of companies that
specialized in the distribution
:41:57
and support of the Operating System itself
:42:00
Among these companies,
Red Hat Software is the best known.
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Red Hat started as a product of Marc Ewing
:42:08
while he was working at IBM.
:42:10
He wanted a little better Linux distribution
:42:12
he started playing around,
:42:14
found out he uh, he spent more time
maintaining his Linux distribution
:42:19
than he did uh,
than he did working on his new project.
:42:23
So he uh, sort of started the distribution himself
:42:27
He met up with Bob Young,
:42:29
who at the time was running company called
ACC Bookstore
:42:32
which was a mail-order PC Unix uh, catalog
:42:36
And Bob kind of knew he wanted something,
:42:39
you know, more his own to market,
:42:41
rather than reselling other people's products
:42:44
And he was fairly good at marketing, and...
:42:48
Mark knew he needed some marketing help
:42:49
because he was very good at the technical parts,
so they kinda got together
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I started working with Red Hat in May of 1995,
basically right out of NC State.
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along with Eric Troan who, me and him
combined make up employees #4 and #5.