February 13, 2010
What Big Companies Use Open Source Software?
I heard Walmart and Kb toys, but I can’t find links to see if this is true. Do you know anymore? Any articles would be helpful. Thanks
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Autozone was sued by the SCO group because they switched from SCO Unix to Linux. If you go through the archives at http://www.groklaw.net you will find references to that stuff. The case is without merit, by the way, but it is still going on, though tSCOg is going through bankruptcy.
NY Stock Exchange/Euronext uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux:http://customers.press.redhat.com/2008/0…
So does the Chicago Mercantile Exchange:http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,3902475…
When you talk about Open Source the basic Open Source packages include the GNU Tools, one of which is the GCC compiler. Microsoft is about the only heavy technology company which doesn’t have it installed in one lab or another. Ford Motor Company has been using it since the 1980s according to my friends:http://www.microcross.com/html/ucos_bene…
and of course Sony’s PlayStation 2 and 3 had Linux kits available for them (which allowed you to compile) as much because the engineers at Sony like Linux as because they got a tax break in Britain if they could call them computers and game machines.
Yahoo! as stated supports FreeBSD. Google is amazing in no small part because they support SO MANY free software packages and OSes that saying they support Linux oversimplifies:http://code.google.com/opensource/
Big companies which don’t support open source are a minority.
EDIT: Just found a link which mentions KB Toys. Look under the first business partner which is 360Commerce — i.e. Oracle:http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpoin…
They also mention Circuit City (which I know is defunct) and Home Depot. And FedEx/Kinkos
If you ran a big company, would you consider it necessary for anybody outside the IT department to know which software was in use? I guess it’s just something not considered to be of public interest for there to be any links.
I heard Bill Gates has a Mac on his desk but there is no confirmation.
Yahoo uses FreeBSD, which is open source.http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/0…http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/server…