[Wylug-discuss] Companies using Linux on the desktop

[James Holden]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:50:20PM -0000, Grayde Bowen wrote:
> I am taking some Linux modules as part of an MSc at Leeds Met.  I have just completed RHA 030.  This has been linked to an academic paper focussing on a case study of Linux implementation.
> I am looking for a suitable business example in the North, ideally to get some primary data for me to analyse.  I would rather not go into Linux server use (such as Apache on Linux as a web server) as the last 2 MSc units I completed were on this and I will probably be heading that way in the next RHA module.   I should like to track down a real business running several linked Linux boxes at the desktop. 
> I understand that they do a lot of this stuff in Brazil but I am after something closer to home.  My real job is in IT lecturing so am in the jack of all trades master of none computing category.

Maplin Electronics run all their EPOS (tills) on Linux.

james

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