[Gllug] Linux Petition

[JLMS]

On 3 April 2012 21:33, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2012, John Hearns said:
>> I would like to say, but without trying to do you down, that many many
>> organisations run Linux and depend on Linux. It is just not shouted
>> from the rooftops.
>
> Particularly in the City. Does anyone *not* use either Linux or Solaris
> somewhere in their stock trading these days?
>

A well known company, which should remained unnamed, have 500 Linux
*desktops* , but would not allow mention of it because they didn't
want their competitors to know about this competitive advantage :-)

This was not hearsay,it  appeared in reliable statistics available to
all SysAdmins used to account for licenses across the firm.

This was on top of a good number of Red Hat and SuSE servers.
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