On 23/05/11 21:05, Dino T. wrote:
Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse
and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of any huge
companies that use it too, please let me know.'
Erm,
Pretty much every company of any notable size in the world uses
Linux/Open Source to a lesser or greater extent (it is the SME and
Public sectors that are dragging their heels on this one).
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/03/gartner-oss-survey
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228136/open_source_software_is_now_a_norm_in_businesses.html
But to name a few...
The London Stock Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange, The Chicago
Mercantile Exchange (All __MASSIVE__ and very fast trading platforms
running on Linux).
From what I can tell, all of the "web 2.0" businesses were built on
Open Source technologies and principles and run on Linux:
eBay, PayPAL, Facebook, Google etc etc.
Oh yes, how about all those Mobile phones that run Android? Even Apple's
OS X is built on Open Source core technology (although they chose the
most liberally licensed code - MIT/Apache - so they can take and do not
have to contribute).
There are also a few recent press releases from Canonical which mention
the French Police (70k desktops) and an Insurance Company in Germany.
Al
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