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From: Mark Bickel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Who uses Linux?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:39:05 -0500
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Michael Martin wrote:
>
> Specifically, who in corporate America is using Linux? I need to know
> in order to make a business case to my manager for porting our stuff.
First, how about DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.)? They provided major
financial and technical resources to porting Linux to the Alpha
platform.
Erol's Internet Services is one of the largest ISP's in the greater
Washington DC area. All their servers run Linux:
http://www.erols.com/
A list of companies that provide commercial support for Linux:
http://www.ix.de/ix/linux/Commercial-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.1
Also 2 companies that provide support for their Linux distributions
which are targeted for the Corporate/Commercial environmaent:
http://www.caldera.com and http://www.redhat.com
RedHat Commercial Linux voted best desktop OS of '96 by Infoworld:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/poy/poydos.htm
In an article about Linux in Corporate America today (see my .sig)
"Linux in a Gray Flannel Suit" you will find "Linux is proving itself
at organizations such as Kodak, the McMurdo Air Force Base, Southwest
Airlines, and Xerox." :
http://www.byte.com/art/9703/sec7/art2bak.htm
Consider posing your question to the folks at Linux Advocacy Project:
http://www.10mb.com/linux/
Bottom line, LOTS of companies are using Linux; they aren't advertising
it though. In many cases MIS and technical people are quietly using it
for back office applications without management's awareness. Corporate
management tends to be be unimanaginative and consider only expensive
"solutions" from "BIG NAME COMANIES" to be be justifiable. The old
"nobody lost their job for selecting [IBM, MicroSoft, Sun]" mentality...
Cheers,
--
Mark.Bickel@ericsson.com Ericsson Inc., Network Systems (USA)
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/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ "it's powerful. it's open. it's free.
/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / That's why this Unix is entering the
/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ corporate IS." -- BYTE, March 1997
From: cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Who uses Linux?
Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:36:05 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford
Michael Martin (mlm@lconn.com) wrote:
: Specifically, who in corporate America is using Linux? I need to know
: in order to make a business case to my manager for porting our stuff...
There's a far from complete list of many and varied companies from around
the world at the following URL:
http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz/
--
Chris Russell
Electronic Imaging Unit
University of Bradford
TEL: +44 1274 385463
From: Edmund Humenberger
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Who uses Linux?
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:52:50 +0200
Organization: LICON
Michael Martin wrote:
>
> Specifically, who in corporate America is using Linux? I need to know
> in order to make a business case to my manager for porting our stuff...
LUCENT (old AT&T) Mercedes Benz (here in Germany run a total research
department on it), MBB (they make the last generation jetfighter),
IKEA, NOKIA, ........ name one, they have LINUX (even Oracle)
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From: hensema@worldaccess.nl (Erik Hensema)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Who uses Linux?
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:03:23 GMT
Organization: World Access, Internet, E-mail and Videotex
Michael Martin wrote:
>Specifically, who in corporate America is using Linux? I need to know
>in order to make a business case to my manager for porting our stuff...
look at http://jaka.ece.uiuc.edu/ldp/linux.html, and look for 'visit
these sites powered by linux'.
Erik Hensema
hensema@worldaccess.nl
From: "Eric A. Dubiel"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.microsoft.sucks,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: "NT IS NOT AN ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT"- Microsoft and HP: Beyond the Hype
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:56:58 -0600
Organization: Instructional Technology Development - Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, USA
"NT IS NOT AN ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT"
- According to Forrester's recent report on Fortune 1000 companies - NT
Myths and Realities - Volume 14, number 2, December 1996.
http://www.forrester.com
Analyst Jon Oltsik further states that,
"NT will not roll over UNIX, Microsoft is far behind UNIX technically,
and customers won't delay enterprise plans to wait for it."
"NT will not obsolete UNIX, but it will make life more difficult for
UNIX vendors. Over the next three years, NT will consolidate its low-end
stronghold and attack the UNIX monopoly for core business application
servers."
Here's some food for thought and the future of NT VS UNIX in the
enterprise of the 'net.
Time to order more UNIX?! ;) Can you say "Rhapsody"?
-Eric
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Added by maintainer:
http://www.forrester.com/pressrel/970130CS.htm
And the press: