OT: Big news: Ford switches ALL infrastructure to Linux from Windows]

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Subject: 	[DISCUSS] Big news: Ford switches ALL infrastructure to Linux 
from Windows
Date: 	Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:32:00 -0500
From: 	Scott Granneman <scott@granneman.com>
Reply-To: 	discuss@sluug.org
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http://www.business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=1014442003

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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