I've been having a little dig around for news about large scale adoption of Linux in enterprises, especially on the desktop (i.e. 1000's of google servers aren't applicable). My impression is that this is basically not happening much, but it has started happening.
I just thought I'd share what I dug up. (I'd welcome other stories.) Really, I'd consider "large" to be 1000 desktops and upwards. These ones below are therefore somewhat marginal. Burlington Coat Factory (US), 32 stores. Desktop and Point of Sale. http://www.internetweek.com/ebizapps01/ebiz071601-1.htm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2073054,00.html McDonald's, Linux for Point of Sale: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2800511,00.html http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2798814,00.html 400-seat desktop deployment at Largo City Hall, Florida, replacing older Unix systems: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239&mode=thread Linux replacing Solaris at Wall Street, for transaction reporting to stockbrokers and companies: http://www.ibm.com/news/us/2001/08/282.html Ford Europe claim they are considering replacing 10,000 desktop Windows systems with Linux: http://newsfilter.free2air.org/story/2001/8/21/152244/235 luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
