I already used Ernie Ball guitar strings. Now I have one more reason to :)
-John On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Joel Finlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: >> > Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also >> > done this? >> >> Completely eliminated Windows? Not many. >> >> Obviously it's possible to a small company off from Windows. For as long >> as I've worked at GL we've had only one Windows install, a terminal >> server. Most employees do all of their work in Linux. (But then we're >> kinda the definition of an outlier.) >> >> Every Red Hat employee I've seen runs RHEL on their work machine. Novell >> made a big announcement about getting rid of Windows, but I don't think >> it actually happened. IBM made an announcement about moving a large >> number of employees to Linux, but when you did the math it turned out to >> be only a fraction (10% ?) of their workforce. >> >> Most of the success cases I've read about have actually been city >> governments, or government projects. In all cases, they required a >> significant commitment to building custom solutions. >> >> http://www.largo.com/department/index.php?fDD=24-0 >> http://davelargo.blogspot.com/ >> >> http://www.canonical.com/content/andalusia-deploys-220000-ubuntu-desktops-schools-throughout-region >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4602325.stm >> >> <snip> > > Here was another pretty famous incident from the Ernie Ball corporation. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=ernie+ball+linux > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
