The Register have Red Hat and Suse are gunning for
this account.

Although I am now almost a complete Slackware
convert, I am familar with both distro's.  I hope
for the best, for either winner,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32837.html

Well, now, we just need the rest of the other
fortune 500's to admit their using it.

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http://www.business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=1014442003

Sun 14 Sep 2003
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Microsoft blow as Ford signs up for Linux

TONY GLOVER

FORD is joining the ranks of governments and local authorities
across the world that have switched from Microsoft software to
the free open-source alternative Linux.

The car giant will run its sales operations, human resources,
customer relations management and the rest of its
infrastructure operations on the upstart technology.

Until now, defectors to Linux have largely been national
governments such as China and local authorities in countries
like Germany concerned that Microsoft’s Windows operating
systems represented a security risk by not allowing them to
inspect the source code, the systems’ software foundations,
for weaknesses.

But government is a small part of Microsoft’s custom and it is
its almost total domination of the business market that has
made it the world’s leading software company. That makes
Ford’s defection to Linux the biggest potential threat to
Microsoft in the software developer’s 28-year history.

Business software applications can now run as easily on Linux
as on Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.



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