To those who like keeping up with who's using Linux/Open Source now or want some extra back-up for presenting (sorry, getting ready for the NSF Review Board):
Information Week (Sept 1) under News Scan: Silicon Graphics Inc. stated that "it's restructuring to lower costs and increase its focus on the high-performance computing market." SGI will be running "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8." Lockheed Martin (users of Linux) nabbed a $140 million, 5 year contract with the FBI Patent protests in Europe: Open-Source software developers protest outside European Union headquarters in Brussels against the EU directive "making it easier to patent intellectual property that is part of a software program." The Eurolinux Alliance said several hundred of their members where present. Brunswick Intergrates Code Expertise: Brunswick has "produced an open-source code engine to exchange business data over the Internet, and the Securities and Exchange Commisssion is an early adopter." "Four months ago, [Brunswick] took a successful internal integration project called the Business Intergration Engine, and made it an open-source project at the SourceForge.net site." Here's something you take as you like: Increase (sorry no data for evidence) in Linux/Open Source use by major companies mostly in North America and Europe. Add this...Information Week states that "Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses hit only 45% of companies worldwide in the past 12 months, down from 66% two years ago. A greater percentage of companies in South America and Asia-Pacific suffered from these attacks compared with those in Europe and North America." mmmmm "Improving operating-system and application security is a top priority for companies in all regions of the world."
