Linux Scores An Ace At Wimbledon

JamesD_UK writes "IBM has a short article with some details of their Linux systems at the Wimbledon tennis championships. Aparantly IBM has been using DB2 on a Linux platform to provide statistics and information on the competition since 1999. VIPs will be offered a chance to use O2's XDA to view match details over wi-fi. Time to apt-get install champagne strawberries kismet?" There's also a BBC article about the system.

Comments

XDA with wifi?

[Anonymous Coward]

Last time I looked at my XDA II (just a few seconds ago), it did not have wifi built in.

O2's Site

[zerOnIne]

I can't get into O2's website at all. I get bounced saying that my browser is out of date. I'm using Mozilla 1.4.1, and I don't really want to "upgrade" to Netscape 7, as they suggest. Warning users with an odd browser, that's fine. Forcing them out of your webpage is just plain stupid. It's sites like this that make me squicky about browser detection code in general.

Re:O2's Site

[OwlWhacker]

Go get Firefox 0.9:

http://mozilla.org/

You won't be sorry.

Re:O2's Site

[martinthebrit]

Strange. I'm on 1.0.1 and it lets me in fine.

Re:Put on the brakes.

[Coppertone]

Sorry, but ebay use Websphere as well....

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.ns f/ CS/NAVO-5DFURA?OpenDocument&Site=tivoli

In tennis (LOVE == 0) is true!

[SoTuA]

To the ignorant soul who modded the parent poster as "Flamebait":

In tennis, (in Wimlbedon and english-language tournaments, at least), the referee never says "zero". When the score is 30-0 the ref does not say "Player leads thirty zero". He says "Player leads thirty-LOVE".

So, to a tennis player, in the context of a match, LOVE means ZERO. Get it now?

IIRC, it comes from the french language, because the number zero looks like an egg, so in french it's "l'oeuf".

So, the correct mod was "Funny". But no, you had to read the post, not understand a word of it, and mod if "Flamebait" because you don't understand.

And to parent poster, well done. I laughed quite a bit :)

Re:Since 1999 ?

[hearingaid]

Yes, Wimbledon is an open tournament, and has been since the '70s. (For the uninitiated, non-tennis-fan, which I'm guessing is like 99% of /.: An open tournament is one in which players don't need invitations to play. It used to be that Wimbledon and the other three majors, the U.S. Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open, you had to swing an invite from the organizing committee. During the '70s, this policy was generally reversed. Now, players can compete in the qualifying tournament, or qualify for the main draw based on their tour ranking. But that's another story.)

IBM actually uses pretty much the same software for Wimbledon, the French, the U.S. Open, and the Aussie. They're just bragging about Wimbledon because it's the most popular of the four, and consequently has the site that gets the most hits.