At Rouse’s Supermarkets in Louisiana, it was just another July day in 2004. Customers placed their summer grocery selections on the conveyor belts; cashiers scanned them and collected the amount due using their touch-screen terminals, just like always. But underneath the hustle and bustle at the checkout lanes, a silent revolution had taken place. Even though their PC-based cash registers seemed the same, the operating system that all the technology rested on had changed from SCO Unixware to Linux. (more…)
February 27, 2008
Iraq’s renewal: U.S. using tools that could have been free
The U.S. State Department has a plan for the renewal of post-Hussein Iraq, called the “Future of Iraq” project. In fact, they’re already making deals with technology companies for tools to help in that renewal. But one of the geographical imaging tools they picked up from an outside vendor has a free counterpart created by the U.S. Army. It’s called GRASS. (more…)
February 11, 2008
Financial group trusts Linux platform to protect customers assets
Western & Southern Financial Group provides insurance and investment advice for businesses and consumers. The conservative nature of the business means that Western & Southern needed the most secure and reliable infrastructure available. After years of running the Sybase database on Sun’s Solaris servers, IT Systems Manager Paul Jackson recognized the need to get the platform “up to speed.” When he checked on the cost to replace the proprietary hardware and operating system the company had relied on for so long, it was so expensive that he began looking for another solution. (more…)
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