Linux works for IBM

[Robert Bushman]

Sounds like the perfect presentation topic for
them to give at Install Fest 02.2!

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Alan Dayley wrote:

> 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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 'Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the
 free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal
 computer industry, is ending.'

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/25NET.html

 Will Microsoft permit you to use your mission critical data when
 you need it?  Linux will, and you have the source to prove it.
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