[ale] Linux figures

[Christopher S. Adams]

sony announced the use of linux as a development platform for the psx2

Chris

-----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
To: ALE mailing list <ale at ale.org>
Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux figures


>On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, UnderGrid Founder wrote:
>
>> > C) What well-known companies currently use linux for part or all of
their
>> > business?
>> > D) What well-known companies have investments in linux, or support it
in
>> > some other way?
>> Cisco uses Linux for all it's print server needs internationally...
>> That's about as "well-known" as I can think of...
>
>There are tons of "invisible" business installations of Linux beyond Cisco.
>The United States Postal Service, for example, runs all their mail-sorting
>computers (you know those bar codes on the bottom of your letters?  These
>are the machines that read that and sort appropriately) on Linux.
>
>There's also a lot of smaller uses of Linux.  Here in Utah, one of the
large
>local grocery chains runs everything on Linux.
>
>later,
>chris
>
>--
>Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
>
chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu
>