Buffalo Souljah
22nd May 2010, 05:37
source: here (http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/)
50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect
U.S. Department of Defense
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According to Linux.com (http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61302), the United States Department of Defense is the "single biggest install base for Red Hat Linux" in the world. Nor was it an unconscious choice, as Brigadier General Nick Justice, the Deputy Program Officer for the Army's Program Executive Office proclaims "open source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects and enables our command and control system to work effectively, as people's lives depend on it." Justice went on to state that "when we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source", and that he was indeed Red Hat's "biggest customer."
U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet
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FreeSoftwareMagazine.com (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/special_301_foss_users_now_were_all_communists_and _criminals) reveals that "the US Navy nuclear submarine fleet is using GNU/Linux" as well.
The City of Munich, Germany
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The city of Munich, Germany has "chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system" according to a 2005 ZD Net (http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2005/04/15/munich-picks-its-linux-distro-39195204/) report. The distribution Munich chose was Debian, and is said to have "considered several alternatives before choosing Debian", settling on it ultimately because of price and the degree to which it could be customized to meet Munich's municipal computing needs. The German Foreign Office, as well as the city of Vienna, also opted to make the switch to Debian in 2005.
Spain
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LWN.net (http://lwn.net/Articles/41738/) maintains that Spain has long been the strongest supporter and user of Linux from a national government standpoint. Linux has spread rapidly throughout Spain since 2002, when the government of Extremadura actually created its own cutomized Linux distribution (called LinEx) based on Debian, using GNOME as its "default desktop environment." Since then, the government "gave away the product CDs at every opportunity -- in government offices, magazines and even daily newspapers" as part of a determined and ongoing effort to get LinEx out to everybody." By handing out the software for free and continuing to publicize its availability, Linux spread from Extremadura throughout the rest of Spain and remains widely used today.
Federal Aviation Administration
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Few government users of Linux appear to be happier with their choice to switch than the United States Federal Aviation Administration. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Types_of_adopters), the FAA announced in 2006 that it "had completed a migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one third of the scheduled time and saved 15 million dollars" in the process of doing so. Score it another big-time government client for the Red Hat distribution of Linux.
French Parliament
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French Parliament opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux, according to ZD Net (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-150389.html) The move was part of a comprehensive shake-up in the software run on Parliament computers, resulting ultimately in "1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on Linux, with OpenOffice.org productivity software, the Firefox Web browser and an open-source e-mail client." Despite the training costs, Parliament officials named cost savings and technological superiority of open-source software for parliamentary purposes as reasons for the switch.
State-Owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
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According to a 2005 InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/trends/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170700943) report, the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China "decided to roll out Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches." As the largest bank in all of China, the institution committed to buying "an unrestricted user license" as part of a full-blown integration of Linux "throughout its entire banking operations network" culminating in 2008. At the time, InformationWeek stated that this represented the largest deployment of Linux to date in the Chinese financial sector. Essentially, Linux became "the basis for its web server and a new terminal platform" at the bank.
Just a small selection from the list
50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect
U.S. Department of Defense
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-dod/DeptOfDefense.jpg
According to Linux.com (http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61302), the United States Department of Defense is the "single biggest install base for Red Hat Linux" in the world. Nor was it an unconscious choice, as Brigadier General Nick Justice, the Deputy Program Officer for the Army's Program Executive Office proclaims "open source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects and enables our command and control system to work effectively, as people's lives depend on it." Justice went on to state that "when we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source", and that he was indeed Red Hat's "biggest customer."
U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-navy/NavySubmarine.jpg
FreeSoftwareMagazine.com (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/special_301_foss_users_now_were_all_communists_and _criminals) reveals that "the US Navy nuclear submarine fleet is using GNU/Linux" as well.
The City of Munich, Germany
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-munich/Munich.jpg
The city of Munich, Germany has "chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system" according to a 2005 ZD Net (http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2005/04/15/munich-picks-its-linux-distro-39195204/) report. The distribution Munich chose was Debian, and is said to have "considered several alternatives before choosing Debian", settling on it ultimately because of price and the degree to which it could be customized to meet Munich's municipal computing needs. The German Foreign Office, as well as the city of Vienna, also opted to make the switch to Debian in 2005.
Spain
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-spain/Spain.gif
LWN.net (http://lwn.net/Articles/41738/) maintains that Spain has long been the strongest supporter and user of Linux from a national government standpoint. Linux has spread rapidly throughout Spain since 2002, when the government of Extremadura actually created its own cutomized Linux distribution (called LinEx) based on Debian, using GNOME as its "default desktop environment." Since then, the government "gave away the product CDs at every opportunity -- in government offices, magazines and even daily newspapers" as part of a determined and ongoing effort to get LinEx out to everybody." By handing out the software for free and continuing to publicize its availability, Linux spread from Extremadura throughout the rest of Spain and remains widely used today.
Federal Aviation Administration
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-faa/FAA.jpg
Few government users of Linux appear to be happier with their choice to switch than the United States Federal Aviation Administration. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Types_of_adopters), the FAA announced in 2006 that it "had completed a migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one third of the scheduled time and saved 15 million dollars" in the process of doing so. Score it another big-time government client for the Red Hat distribution of Linux.
French Parliament
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-french-p/French.jpg
French Parliament opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux, according to ZD Net (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-150389.html) The move was part of a comprehensive shake-up in the software run on Parliament computers, resulting ultimately in "1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on Linux, with OpenOffice.org productivity software, the Firefox Web browser and an open-source e-mail client." Despite the training costs, Parliament officials named cost savings and technological superiority of open-source software for parliamentary purposes as reasons for the switch.
State-Owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/generic/linux-china-bank/ChinaBank.jpg
According to a 2005 InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/trends/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170700943) report, the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China "decided to roll out Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches." As the largest bank in all of China, the institution committed to buying "an unrestricted user license" as part of a full-blown integration of Linux "throughout its entire banking operations network" culminating in 2008. At the time, InformationWeek stated that this represented the largest deployment of Linux to date in the Chinese financial sector. Essentially, Linux became "the basis for its web server and a new terminal platform" at the bank.
Just a small selection from the list