[Wolves] Big users
James Turner
james at turnersoft.co.uk
Wed Apr 25 23:42:52 UTC 2012
On 25/04/12 15:24, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 25 April 2012 15:16, Claire<lug at sitesearcher.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 25/04/12 12:27, Dave Morley wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25/04/12 12:03, John Rose wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know the names of largish organisations in the UK which
>>>> use a Linux distro as their main OS etc on their desktops&
>>>> laptops?
>>>>
>>>> Similarly, can anyone name any orgs in the W-ton area who do the
>>>> same?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not so many people use Linux on the desktop across the uk, however
>>> loads use it on their servers, The government for one and many others.
>>>
>>> For desktop usage the big ones are likely in Europe, France has Ubuntu
>>> installed on all citreon/puegeot systems there is an entire region of
>>> spain that use their version of Ubuntu across everything (Gaudia Linux
>>> I think), germany has in places etc, etc, etc
>>>
>>
>>
>> The London Stock Exchange uses Linux now I think, not sure about desktops.
The LSE uses a Linux-based trading plaform provided by Millenium IT
(http://www.milleniumit.com/).
> Maplin use Fedora on (almost) all of their in-store kiosk machines.
...and I've noticed at least one thin client running Red Hat at Ikea.
J.
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