Friday, July 6, 2007 
In 2003, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com visited <A HREF="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1262974,00.html?track=sy184">the Linux support landscape</A> with a list of Linux support weaknesses. A lot has happened over the past four years, as is evident in the success of Red Hat and Novell's subscription-based support models and the meteoric rise of commercial-grade Ubuntu support, to name a few. But, according to a recent SearchEnterpriseLinux.com survey of IT managers, support remains a "barrier to adoption" for Linux in the data center.
Today, they revisit the support list of yesteryear to see how things were, what's changed, what's stayed the same, and why.
