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- Amerada Hess Corporation
- Oil Exploration Supercomputing - Amerada Hess Corp is a $7.4 billion
petroleum company, but the supercomputers traditionally used to analyze oil
exploration data are rather costly even for a company of this size. No longer
a problem. Amerada Hess now uses a large Linux cluster for the job.
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- BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
- Light Rail Metropolitan Transit System - This system tracks
the flow of electricity from the high voltage DC power lines of Pacific Gas
and Electric to the distribution of electricity via the third rail. If an
emergency required the evacuation of a train, this system would be used to
turn off the electricity to ensure the safety of passengers as they exited
the system.
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- Boscov's Department Stores
- special invoicing, server consolidation, Web site, etc. - Boscov's,
America's largest family owned department store chain, has been steadily
moving it's back office operations to Linux, and will probably eventually
migrate POS (Point of Sale) systems as well.
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- Burlington Coat Factory
- Entire Systems - Burlington Coat Factory is a "Factory Outlet"
retailer with 280 stores in 42 states. Initial Linux installations at their
new distribution center and a few new stores proved highly successful, so
roll-out to existing stores began. An order for 1,250 Dell computers preloaded
with Linux was placed to support the effort.
The Linux systems are used to run warehousing and distribution, the gift
registry and back office functions such as ordering and general desktop. The
chosen office productivity suite is
Applixware
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- Conoco
- Oil Exploration Supercomputing - Conoco is one of several major
petroleum companies that have chosen to use inexpensive Linux clusters instead
of costly supercomputers to analyze oil exploration data.
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- Cisco - Worldwide
Printing System - Cisco, a $21 billion maker of routers that tie the
Internet together, signed a major agreement with Microsoft regarding support
for Active Directory. As part of that deal, Cisco management declared Cisco
an "all Microsoft" company.
Unfortunately, Cisco's IT staff couldn't get
network printing services to work right through NT servers (and you can't
say Cisco engineers don't understand networking, now, can you?). Cisco's
worldwide
printing services now run on Linux.
- Digital Domain -
Visual Effects Supercomputing - Digital Domain is a major visual effects
studio. In particular, they did the visual effects for Appolo 13
and Titanic. The effects for Titanic were particularly
demanding, too demanding for their SGI Inigos, and would have normally
required a supercomputer costing millions. Digital Domain was able to
do the job on an inexpensive Linux cluster instead.
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- Ernie Ball Inc.
- Entire Operation - Ernie Ball was one of those
unfortunate companies turned over to the BSA (Business Software Aliance) by
someone with a grudge. While few "infractions" .
There's hardly a small business anywhere that has all the paperwork together
for their software, and while few "infractions" were found, that was enough
to be very costly. Ernie Ball decided this would never happen again and
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- Garden Grove
California, City of - major
operations - The City of Garden Grove began moving operations to Linux
in 1995 with central data systems running Samba and the Pick database. The
initial deployment was so successful and saved so much money the city has
been gradually moving other operations to Linux, including some desktop
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- Google - Search
Engine - The wildly popular Google search engine simply would not be
possible without a customized version of Linux fit exactly to its needs.
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- Just Sports USA
- A fast growing chain (now 50 stores) selling sports items - All
Stores, Back Office functions, Inventory and eCommerce systems run on Linux.
All functions are integrated together using a PostgreSQL database. The
eCommerce system runs on Linux / Apache Web servers and is also integrated
with the inventory database. Postgre and Apache are also Open Source
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- Kaiser
Aluminum - Manufacturing Control - Kaiser, one of the world's
largest producer of aluminum, aluminum sheet and foil, has chosen Linux for
many applications on the manufacturing floor. It works side by side with Unix,
Windows NT and specialty "real time" operating systems.
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- Largo Florida, City of
- City office desktop systems. - Largo has about
400 thin client workstations running the KDE Desktop from a Linux server.
Database workloads were migrated from SCO Unix, AIX and Windows NT servers for
a multi-million dollar savings. Largo figures its IT budget is about half that
of other cities its size. Using
thin clients provides a low cost, very low
maintenance, uniform and easily administered computing environment for all
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- Lawson Inc. (Japan)
- In-Store Consumer Web Ordering System - Lawson, a giant convenience
store chain (7,600 stores) in Japan, will be placing two Linux based computers
in each store to implement it's new Web ordering system. The over 15,000
computers will be purchased from IBM pre-configured with Linux installed.
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Mexico City - government of - Everything! - The
government of Mexico City have concluded they can no longer justify the ever
rising cost of Microsoft Windows when the cost of Linux software is very low.
Linux has already proven itself in the city's motor vehicle licensing agency
and in the Mexican school system. Money saved will be used in social welfare
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- Mobil Travel Guide
- Major Consumer Web Site - This Exxon division found
Linux ideal both from a cost/performance standpoint and for scalability as
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Insight.
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Omaha Steaks - On-Line Commerce - Advertisements for this mail
order company can be found in the back of most up-scale home oriented
magazines. They were running their internal systems on an IBM AS/400 and
outsourced their Web site, but they wanted to tie the on-line ordering
directly into the AS/400. A cluster of Linux servers now runs the Web site
and connects to the AS/400.
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- Panasonic -
Major Electronics Manufacturer - Panasonic's popular DBS business
telephone system included a voicemail system based on Windows NT, but it was
a bit pricy. To be more competitive in smaller businesses, Panasonic developed
a system incorporating 1CTI's
Linux based voice mail software. The Linux based system has been so well
accepted by the customers the Windows based system is being discontinued.
- Raymour &
Flanigan - Furniture Chain (50 stores in Northeast) - The
store chain has trnsferred most of its servers to Linux, and is replacing
Windows 98 PC with Linux based "thin client" workstations in its service
centers. Inventory and other databases are now being migrated from Microsoft
Access running on Windows servers to Oracle running on Linux.
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- Royal Dutch/Shell
- Oil Exploration Supercomputing - One of the world's largest
petroleum companies, Royal Dutch/Shell could certainly afford the
supercomputers traditionally used to analyze oil exploration data, but why
do that when your competitors are using inexpensive Linux clusters to do the
job. Royal Dutch/Shell has decided to set up a bigger Linux cluster than
the ones it's competitors have.
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- Tommy Hilfiger -
Clothing Brand - Note: website designed by idiots won't let you in at
all without Flash plug-in. The company is installing three Linux based portals
running on IBM xSeries servers. The first provides remote access to data on
the company's IBM iSeries (AS/400) datacenter computers. The second provides
access for clothing manufacturers to designs and specifications. The third
provides B2B eCommerce access to retailers and a company store for employees.
Company officials say the Linux systems provide the required performance at
a lower cost than any other platform.
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- Toyota Motor Sales,
U.S.A. - Dealer Communications System -
Toyota is installing a Linux based system connecting all its car
dealers to it's factory. This is a Web based system from the ground up, and
will be handling 30 different functions including parts ordering, warranties,
sales transactions and repairs.
A 30 dealer pilot roll-out was highly successful, extremely reliable, and
easily maintained, so now the system will be rolled out to all 1,200 dealers.
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- Travelocity
- Travel Agency - Travelocity is the back-end system for the travel
services offered by AOL, Yahoo and US Airways. It's Web site gets 11 million
page views and 170,000 email transmissions a day. The system is being
migrated to Linux and Java.
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- U.S. Army
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major military organization - The U.S. Army's Land Warrior program,
the first stage of a far reaching battlefield information and communications
system, leads a general move to Linux. The Army says that
"Evidence shows that Linux is more stable". Apparently the Army has issues
with Microsoft's "blue screen of death".
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- U.S. Federal Courts -
case management, case tracking, finance and accounting, probation and pretrial
services - A support contract has been awarded (Nov-03) to PEC Solutions
for migration of the Federal Judiciary to a Linux based system. =
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- U.S. Postal Service
- OCR Supercomputing - The Postal Service had declared itself an
"all Windows NT" house, but you can't use NT for what it simply can't do - so
they now sort all the bulk mail on
over 900 Linux clusters
scattered around the country (at less than half the cost of the next cheapest
solution (and that wasn't NT either)).
The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system uses scanners that were
already in place. The Linux system consists of 5 rack mounted PCs, one to
handle the scanners and sorting equipment, and 4 to share the computational
tasks.
- WesternGeco
- Oil Exploration Supercomputing - IBM has built a Linux based
supercomputer for analysis of seismic data. This machine is built from 256
IBM eServer xSeries. This is the second largest Linux cluster IBM has built
for oil exploration, the largest being the 1024 xSeries cluster for Shell.
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