Ford To Move To Linux

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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This could get interesting

[toxic666]

Ford contracts out their support to the lowest bidders. I wish I got paid for every time friends at Ford (engineers) called or e-mailed asking for help fixing messes tech support can't or won't. Their support is unresponsive and clueless. They get hit by every virus that comes along because patching servers and maintaining AV software lags.

Now, getting Linux in may be a big win, but who is going to administer it? If they try to get the quality of support they've gotten for their Windows server networking (bucket of warm spit), they will be in trouble. It will be difficult to find a large number of competent Linux admins, and if they are not careful about the qualifications of who they hire, it could end up being as big a mess as their current Microsoft servers.

Best one ever:

[Garion911]

From my cousin:

Fucking Out Right Dangerous..