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Thread ID: 81993 2007-08-13 06:32:00 Here's some Linux news winmacguy (3367) PC World Chat
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580077 2007-08-13 06:32:00 Automaker Peugeot converts 20,000 desktops to Linux
Peugeot is planning to give Linux desktops to a wide variety of computer users, including sales force workers and workers on the manufacturing floor.

The French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen is slated to become one of the few large scale conversions to desktop Linux.
www.itnews.com.au
winmacguy (3367)
580078 2007-08-13 08:37:00 interesting lol

oh how i wish i could have all those computers and farm them together to form my own mini super computer. sigh :illogical
Bozo (8540)
580079 2007-08-13 10:08:00 That would be a big beowolf cluster. winmacguy (3367)
580080 2007-08-13 12:34:00 Yeah, 20000 out of 72000. Great, thats not even 30%. Well hey atleast they're not converting to Mac's:thumbs: beeswax34 (63)
580081 2007-08-14 02:04:00 Yeah, 20000 out of 72000. Great, thats not even 30%. Well hey atleast they're not converting to Mac's:thumbs:

They may not be but these guys have:)
July 16, 2007 (Computerworld) -- It's little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz’s crisp white shirt that signal the sea change in the works at Auto Warehousing Co.Over the next 60 days, AWC will begin systematically pulling the plug on all Windows-based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute virtually all of its revenue-generating operations. The move comes on the heels of a quiet wholesale replacement of Windows-based servers for data storage and Web operations, which are now running on Apple Inc.’s Xserve RAID machines.
computerworld.com
winmacguy (3367)
580082 2007-08-14 11:11:00 Yeah, 20000 out of 72000. Great, thats not even 30%.
I fail to see your point there beeswax. I am sure MS are not too happy about losing 20000 licenses and in a years time it might be another 20000. It all starts adding up to be bad news for MS and an indication that Vista is not showing up as a value for money upgrade.
mikebartnz (21)
580083 2007-08-14 12:27:00 Ah well, at least MS have a foot in the door via their IP theft.. erm.. patent agreement. Murray P (44)
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