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

Based on past experience...

[FreeLinux]

I would also expect IBM to use Linux during the upcoming Olympics.

Re:Based on past experience...

[frodo from middle ea]

I sincerely hope the people working on accessibility features of KDE and GNOME don't have the same attitude or sense of humor as yours.

Put on the brakes.

[FreeLinux]

I never hear about a windowsOS with SQL2000 running on IIS making a site like this work...reliably...it would never happen.

Hold on a second. I'm a big Linux fan and all but, to make claims like this is just not right. There are many large sites that use just the setup that you describe and they work just fine. Look at Dell or eBay for starters.

AIX

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

IBM's website states that it is powered with some servers running linux and other running AIX.
The combination of Linux and AIX provides managers with the flexibility, reliability and scalability required to meet the challenge of hosting and maintaining the busy site.

But a Story titled "Linux and AIX Score an ACE at Wibledon" Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Good.

[Rxke]

I like this. A lot.

Getting this on BBC is bound to be more important to spread the word to the 'laymen' than on Ars Technica.

BBC seems to be very in favor of Linux, lately. They keep mentioning it, mostly in their Technology section of course, but I'd guess it's a lot more mainstream than Ars Technica, so this namedropping of Linux in relation to professional/big events stuff must have its psychological impact on *a lot* of peeps.

Them going from thinking "Linux is for nerds," to "Hmmm... Linux has become professional stuff, check it out!"

I remember when ...

[lwriemen]

... this sort of news used to be exciting to us OS/2 users, until we found out that it doesn't mean diddly! :-(

Re:Not much of a win.

[chegosaurus]

> How was that modded flamebait

Because the moderator didn't understand it. He saw the words "linux" and "means nothing", and thought perhaps the OP criticized linux. The natural reaction in such circumstances is to mod as flamebait. Everything in any way critical of linux, whether intentionally or not, is flamebait. It happens to me a lot.

That script is broken

[twitter]

It rejected Mozilla 1.0 and 1.6 for me but it let Konqueror in. That's strange because Konq is sending the default browser ID, Mozilla/5.0.

There's not much useful information on the page, unless you own one and need a ROM upgrade. But it should let in the O2's own browser, right? Here is a review of the thing that tells you more than the site does.

Re:Another Fine Example

[m00nun1t]

" never hear about a windowsOS with SQL2000 running on IIS making a site like this work...reliably...it would never happen"

Perhaps because your only source of news is /.?

Manchester Commonwealth games and the Rugby World Cup both spring to mind as running on IIS. Both sites which have extreme levels of traffic in a very short period, both had no problems I heard about.

How about the 4th busiest site in the world, microsoft.com? They were running Win2003/IIS6 on part of their cluster around 12 months before it was released!

Any publicity can be good publicity.

[AltGrendel]

Remember, OS2 was killed by the falling out of Microsoft and IBM.

IBM doesn't have that kind of dependency on Microsoft now, so they can be as agressive with the marketing of this as they like.