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Wal-Mart, Moore's Law and Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the deep-thoughts dept.

J.E. Kazor writes: "In MIT's 'Technology Review' magazine, Michael Schrage writes about Wal-Mart, Moore's Law, and Open Source. Perhaps instead of spending all of our energy bashing bashing the 800-pound gorilla, Microsoft, we should align the support of a 900-pound gorilla, such as Wal-Mart. Such a symbol of cost conscious efficiency should embrace the benefits of Open Source."

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  1. Great but.... by MtViewGuy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One thing though: Wal-Mart has invested so much time and money on its own IT system that the cost of conversion to Linux (especially the retraining of IT staff) could end up being more than the cost of continuing to keep the licenses for their proprietary software setup.

  2. WalMart runs IIS5 on Linux ???? by DickBreath · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you go to NetCraft's What's that site running?, and enter www.walmart.com, you get back the following.....

    The site www.walmart.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 (WindowsNT) on Linux.

    Could it mean the web server is IIS, but the IP stack of some frond end router or getaway is Linux?

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