Auctioneer Bonhams opts for Linux, Mar 27, 2006

Bonhams was interested in the scalability and stability of Linux. Based on a positive previous experience with IBM Intel-processor-based servers and the deep IBM commitment to Linux, Bonhams selected an IBM xSeries solution running Linux.

As part of the drive to cut costs and future saving, Singapore Housing Development Board decided to migrate its business applications on the Internet and intranet to Linux as its strategic operating system

Oracle has announced that Ohio Savings Bank's mortgage system - which processes hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions daily - now relies on an integrated Oracle Database 10g running on Linux and Microsoft .NET architecture.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM, attributes the success of the OS to this growing community of Linux contributors. The Linux Executive Report recently spoke with Wladawsky-Berger about the past, present and future of Linux.

The Jordan Commercial Bank (JCBank) has implemented a new and comprehensive banking system, based on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, and deployed on a Linux operating system.

Large volumes of data files, combined with the necessary high security made Linux and IBM the right collaborative choice to enable data sharing between healthcare institutions in different locations.

If biotechnology is the next frontier, then stem cell research can truly blaze trails in conquering the devastation of disease. A research database at Princeton University is an exciting part of that story.

Princeton is using IBM's technologies to run its stem cell research database—a unique repository to support knowledge-seeking efforts of scientists that may eventually result in a better future for those who fall victim to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, spinal cord injury, diabetes, and strokes. In using these technologies, Princeton's scientists access, share, and collaborate on data with researchers worldwide.

In this interview, Princeton's Dr. Douglas Welsh, Lecturer and Senior Professional Technical Staff Member, Department of Molecular Biology, discusses how Power Architecture and 64-bit Linux support the department's research efforts.

'Linux has been slow to take-off in the Middle East but since about March this year we have seen a lot of interest all of a sudden,' says Christian Kroker, Managing Director of Enigmatis, a Dubai Internet City based Linux specialist which moved to the region from its South African home last autumn.

'Around the world the adoption of Linux has been led by government, and not the private sector. For example, the Munich City Council recently moved 30,000 desktop PCs on to Linux despite the offer of a free alternative from Microsoft. They simply wanted Linux.