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Linux Scores An Ace At Wimbledon

Posted by michael on from the 40-love dept.

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.

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  1. Put on the brakes. by FreeLinux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. AIX by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  3. I remember when ... by lwriemen · · Score: 5, Insightful

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