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:: Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers the Virgin America Airlines web presence
:: Amadeus, a travel reservations system provider, uses Linux extensively throughout their operations.
:: Le Meridien and Sheraton hotel chains uses Linux to run their reservations system.
:: Wimbledon meets the challenge of unpredictable demandwith a Linux solution.
:: The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a US$53 million order to build the world’s largest DTF infrastructure for scientific research including the Linux clusters, creating the most powerful distributed computing system and the world’s fastest unclassified supercomputers ever to be used by researchers to study some of the most fundamental questions of science, such as the nature of gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity.
:: Linux on Grid: Progressive Broker Charles Schwab accelerates client service response using GRID
:: Online retailer Amazon.com recently shaved millions of dollars from its technology costs by switching to the Linux operating system. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the e-commerce giant said it was able to cut technology expenses by about 25 percent, from $71 million to $54 million.
  
:: All Macedonian students to use Linux desktops. The national undertaking will standardize all schools around a single technology platform,
:: BMW uses XEN virtualization technology on Novell's SUSE Linux in their data center.
:: Hyundai uses a Linux cluster built by IBM for crash simulation tests and analysis.
 
:: Continental Airlines has switched over to Linux to power their ticket-reissuing system.
:: PayPal - the on-line payment manager runs its web presence and middleware tier on thousands of Linux Servers.
:: PSA Peugeot Citroën - the European automaker awarded Novell Inc. the contract to migrate over 20,000 desktops and 2000 servers to SUSE Enterprise Linux.
  
:: Qantas Airways has migrated 80% of their datacenter servers to Linux.
:: Unilever - the Anglo-Dutch food conglomerate started a migration to open source and Linux in 2004.
:: Volvo is using an IBM-built Linux cluster to process vehicle crash test data.
:: Thrifty Car Rentals running a large percentage of their IT infrastructure on Ubuntu Linux. |
