[H-GEN] FW: [linux-biz] Re: Your company

TRIGGER Peter (QSO) ptrigger at powerlink.qld.gov.au
Mon Apr 20 02:16:04 EDT 1998



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Evan Summers [SMTP:evan at sr.co.za]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:17 PM
> To:	Bernard Lang
> Cc:	linux-biz at lege.com
> Subject:	[linux-biz] Re: Your company
> 
> 
> > Linux is used exclusively by all these chains for their
> mission-critical
> > transaction processing systems, including in the central envirnoment
> and
> > warehouse/distribution centers, right down to in-store servers and 
> > point-of-sale terminals as I've mentioned. 
> 
> Probably I should add that we have chains that have been running
> exclusively on Linux since 1995, with the others coming on-stream at
> various intevals since then. In fact, the newer ones have stuck with
> Linux
> precisely because the earlier chains (led by a first chain of 150
> stores,
> deployed September 1995) have been running so successfully with Linux.
> 
> 
> 800 stores for another client deployed before Linux was a twinkle in
> Linus' eye, are using SCO, and we compare our experiences with Linux
> to
> those of the sites running SCO. Based on our experiences, we would
> recommend Linux even if it cost more than SCO and NT...
> 
> Something else I should add is that our application is written in our
> own
> 4GL, and porting the application from SCO to Linux was trivial, since
> it
> required porting our 4GL runtime engine, which is in C. 
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Evan
> 
> ______________________Evan Summers PhD * New Product Development
> Manager
> ________________Universal Computer Services * Johannesburg, South
> Africa
> ____________ebs at ucs.co.za * telephone +27 11 339-6111 *
> http://ucs.co.za
> 
> 
> 
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