[ILUG] How much is Linux used?

[francois maillard]

> Money made by HP and IBM show that sales are happening in the Linux arena.
IBM proposes Linux on every server it sells, which is definitly not the case 
for Win: they're selling it only on their low/middle class machines...
Having worked at IBM for 3 years in France, I can say that Linux was, 3 
years ago, seen as a f***ing new product that IBM's trying to propose... it 
is now one of IBM's classical and most growing proposal.
 I agree with Ole when he speaks about built-in Linux products... as an 
exemple, many firewall/network devices run Linux OS's (Linksys, which has 
been buyed by Cisco is quite well introduced in this market -- even though I 
had bad experiences with Linksys products ;).)
Another appliance are industry's robots... every single Peugot-Citroen robot 
is Unix/Linux based.
My girlfriend works in realtime research and she's never seen an appliance 
running Windows (I had been deseperatly trying to make her use Linux... she 
finally had to).
 -- 
Francois

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