Re: tlug: US Postal uses Linux

[craigoda@example.com]

From: Cliff Miller <cliff@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug: US Postal uses Linux
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:53:03 +0900

cliff> > Cliff, 
cliff> > the site seems to be down.  Since the article was so interesting,
cliff> > I have mirrored it at
cliff> > 
cliff> >    http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~craigoda/linux_usage/us_postal.html
cliff> 
cliff> BTW, do you (or anyone else on the list) know of a good url or source
cliff> of information that lists similar examples of corporations/organizations 
cliff> using Linux on a wide scale?


http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz/

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Some of the list:

Sony Electronics Inc uses Linux for the following functions: 

     X-Windows: 
         X-Windows terminal (display, keyboard, mouse -- applications run
         elsewhere) 
         X-Windows server (runs applications, possibly exports display) 
     Network file server: 
         Samba server for a network of PCs. 
         NFS server for other PCs and Unix systems. 
     Print server: 
         Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients) 
         Print spooler using samba (PC clients) 
     Office productivity software: 
         Document preparation with LyX. 
         Document preparation with TeX, LaTeX and derivatives. 
         Spreadsheets created with NeXS. 
     Internet client software - WWW 
         NetScape Navigator. 
     Internet client software - mail 
         Other mail clients. 
     Network services provided to local users: 
         HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache. 
     Software development tools: 
         C and/or C++ 
         Perl 
         Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools. 

McGraw Hill 
Byte uses a Linux server to provide conferencing, e-mail, news, a web view to
conference data, file sharing (using Samba), and a search engine (MetaSearch). 


Cisco Systems Inc. uses Linux for the following functions: 

     Network file server: 
         Samba server for a network of PCs. 
     Print server: 
         Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients) 
         Print spooler using samba (PC clients) 
     Office productivity software: 
         Document preparation with ApplixWare. 
     Internet client software - WWW 
         NetScape Navigator. 
     Internet client software - mail 
         Other mail clients. 
     Network services provided to local users: 
         HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache. 
         Other services. 
     Software development tools: 
         C and/or C++ 
         Java 
         Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools. 


InfoWorld recently wrote about the possibility of Cisco Systems Inc. switching 
from Linux to Windows NT: 

     "Speaking of platform changes, Cisco Systems may be switching over its
     internal network of print servers. Apparently, the company's current
     infrastructure is based on Linux and works very well, but that hasn't
     stopped the guys at the top from wanting to mess with it. I'm told that in
     light of Cisco's ever-cozier relationship with Microsoft, its senior
     management issued an order that the existing system be trashed in favor of
     a Windows NT-based setup. Word has it, though, that inertia has won out,
     and despite the order from on-high, the printing system is still -- you
     guessed it -- Linux-based.
     -- Robert X. Cringley, "No Sunday in the Park: Rain Pushes platforms
     closer to the precipice," in: InfoWorld, February 23, 1998, vol. 20, issue 8,
     p. 115. 


Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, mentions in an interview with InfoWorld that
Linux can often be on the "unofficially approved list" at some companies: 

     "But not many people want to come out of the closet to officially say they
     are using Linux. NASA is very open about supporting Linux, as are
     universities. I know that Linux is used in places like Boeing, but I can't
     point people to a Web page that says so.
     -- Linus Torvalds talks economics and operating systems, InfoWorld,
     April 9, 1998. 


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Craig Oda   craigoda@example.com   http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~craig