An article in the Electronic Engineering Times about the new chip fab IBM 
is opening in the Hudson Valley in the state of New York has great quotes 
about Linux:

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020805S0039

Quotes:
"This is the first fab whose IT infrastructure is all Linux-based, 
controlled by some 1,700 1-GHz microprocessors able to access some 600 
terabytes of data," said Perry Hartswick, project manager for factory 
integration solutions. "Together with Cisco, we developed this IT 
manufacturing environment with off-the-shelf parts."

"Hartswick said Linux was evaluated against a Windows-based system and 
performed flawlessly for three months, whereas the Windows-based system 
failed after six or seven days. "

Alan

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