Y sent this back in April... somehow it never showed up in w.d.o/users
so here it is again.
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Ernesto Hernández-Novich - On Linux 2.6.0-test5 i686 - Unix: Live free or die!
Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course.
If you can't apt-get it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist.
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:59:28 -0400 (VET)
From: Ernesto Hernandez-Novich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: High-profile Debian user
Hi.
Hope is not too late :-)
Name: Nuevo Mundo Seguros y Banco Comercial [1]
Organization Type: Bank, Finance & Insurance
Country: Venezuela
We started using Debian Potato in early 2001, and upgraded to Woody. We
have over a dozen servers (all Intel-based IBM servers from small to
medium range SMP, hardware RAID, etc., a legacy UltraSparc Enterprise 5000,
and a couple of Alpha Servers were replaced by them and now serve as
backup/filestore running Debian too) handling _all_ business critical
activities from network infrastructure and centralized authentication
(DHCP, BIND, OpenLDAP, IDS, internal Debian mirror, FTP serving, Netsaint,
MRTG, etc.), electronic services (e-mail 1-1 and 1-many, Slash-based intranet,
proxied access to the Internet with time-based restrictions) for over
400+ employees nation-wide, database holding (Oracle for the legacy
business database, PostgreSQL and MySQL for new developments) and
application development (we have about a dozen or so programmers migrating
Oracle Forms applications into Perl+DBI CGIs and mod_perl modules).
I chose to start with SuSE in april 2000 only because it had spanish
User Manuals for my "newbie" tech staff. We have been "in production"
with Linux since april 2000, and switched to Debian as soon as the rest
of the tech staff got "up to date" and experimented enough to handle
the administrator chores; the whole IT department (nine people) has
switched to Debian (running testing/sid at the time). They wouldn't
stand anything else now: reliability, manageability and software
availability are the reasons.
We use free software for everything we can, we use propietary software
when there is no other choice (the only reason we're keeping
Oracle installed is because it's hard to move our data out of it... for
the time being :-).
[1] Nuevo Mundo Insurance and Comercial Bank. Located in Caracas,
Venezuela, with about thirty branch offices across
the country.
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Ernesto Hernández-Novich - Running Linux 2.4.19 i686 - Unix: Live free or die!
Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course.
If you can't apt-get it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist.
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