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Ford To Move To Linux

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 15, 2003 @08:41AM from the welcome-to-model-free dept.

KingDaveRa writes "The Register is reporting that motor giant Ford is switching to Linux for its sales systems, human resources, customer relations and infrastructure, referencing a report in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday. According to The Register, the biggest battle was over which Linux vendor to use - RedHat or SuSE." Update: 09/16 01:51 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points to this NewsForge report, according to which Ford is not moving to Linux.

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I dare SCO by earthforce_1 · 2003-09-15 08:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

to try sending Ford an invoice!

Come on Darl! :-D

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Re:What about Burlington in 1999? by garcia · 2003-09-15 09:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

great, these people will be using Linux desktops. How many of them use some sort of full-screened terminal application to access the information anyway?

Banks (while running OS/2 on the desktop) use full-screened VT-102 terminal emulators to access the bank's server. Have we ever seen those employees running to OS/2 because they used it at work?