Adidas Steps Up to Open Platform, Dec 22, 2004

A leading sporting goods manufacturer is switching to Linux after seeing the need to consolidate platforms among its many divisions.

The company running the German railway system has moved half of its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of this year

After evaluating the options, Phillips says AIG chose to work with Sage Line 500 on Linux, configured, installed and supported by Sage Enterprise Solutions authorised business partner, Unisource.

Country Energy, one of the largest providers of electrical power in Australia, is a good example of a public sector company that has taken Linux seriously

Organisations want reliable, low-cost, scaleable IT solutions, so why are they still buying Microsoft server technology?

The Linux operating system reached a landmark last week when a global manufacturer moved its SAP enterprise software system onto a Linux-based mainframe.

Endress+Hauser, a global manufacturer of process control equipment, has moved its Unix-based SAP R/3 system onto a mainframe running Linux software that runs the company's main business operations.

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch foods and personal products conglomerate, has an annual turnover approaching £30bn and massive IT requirements. As the company takes its first steps on the path to open source, vnunet.com spoke to global chief information officer Neil Cameron.

The menace of spam has pushed Lloyds Steel Industries to upgrade its mail server, for which the company has initiated a complete evaluation of both Microsoft and Linux based mailing solutions.

Detailing the proposed IT initiative to CXOtoday, Tanveer Ahmed, EDP officer, Lloyds Steel Industries Ltd., said, “Approximately 70 to 80% of our daily mails are spam that lead to considerable downtime. Thus the productive time of an employee is wasted in validating and deleting these mails. We therefore plan to get a comprehensive mailing solution for our enterprise.”

While questions surrounding Linux’s reliability have left some companies skittish, the Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association (HKAOA) is looking the other way and is more committed than ever to the open source operating system that powers the organisation’s online information system.

Representing pilots and flight engineers employed by Cathay Pacific Airways, the HKAOA has over 1,000 members based in Hong Kong, Europe, North America and Australia, and Asia. And because of this large worldwide member base, maintaining communication is their core business objective.

Restaurant Operator Implements POS on Linux

SIVA Corporation(TM), the provider of a broad range of operations-focused technology options to the restaurant industry, announced today that Texas-based Jason's Deli has selected the iSIVA(TM) suite as the restaurant chain's new point-of-sale and back office. The successful fast-casual concept has set its IT strategy to support operations in a geographically dispersed environment.

A small, regional airline is using Linux to help reshape itself into a new national low-fare air carrier.

The new airline, Independence Air, had operated since 1989 as Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings Inc., a regional carrier that flew short connecting flights in partnership with United Air Lines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. But after Chicago-based United's bankruptcy filing in December 2002, Atlantic Coast Airlines decided to set out on its own.

Leading InfiniBand companies and organizations have banded together to form OpenIB Alliance, an industry association with the mission of delivering an open-source Linux-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand architecture.

InfiniBand is a channel-based, switch-fabric architecture. At first, starting in 2000, its proponents pushed it as a system bus/network bus network replacement for everything from PCI to Fibre Channel. The technology found it rough going though with questions about whether major OEMs would support it well into 2003.

Asia's dominant Linux distribution, Turbolinux, has notched another win to provide the operating system for the China Ministry of Railways. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Under the agreement Turbolinux will install and deploy Turbo HA, its high availability server application on 160 servers as well as 300 copies of Turbolinux Server. The system is intended to help modernize the Chinese package delivery process which is operates in tandem with the postal service and railways.

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker, and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. have adopted a Linux cluster system built by International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer maker, for vehicle crash simulation testing and analysis, IBM Korea said on Wednesday.

By connecting a number of small computers, the cluster system helps them perform as a high-performance supercomputer, said IBM Korea, a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM.

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