Sporting goods retailer now sporting Linux everywhere

Alex Maier lxmaier at gmail.com
Sun May 7 16:08:11 UTC 2006


Rahul,
This is a great article! Loved it!
Mind posting in on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive ?

Thanks,
a

On 5/7/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> Just about every Backcountry.com employee is running Fedora Linux on the
> desktop -- 50 workstations in the warehouse and 60 in the call center.
> "We have a policy that any machine replaced doesn't get Windows put back
> on it," Jenkins says. "It's Linux migration by attrition." Jenkins
> manages support for an inconsistent mix of desktop operating systems by
> utilizing the vast skills of his IT staff, who are well-versed in both
> Windows and Linux environments. The transition has been invisible to the
> users, he says, because all the server and desktop applications are
> accessed via a browser. "As long as I can get a browser window we're
> good to go."
>
> http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1959240
>
> Rahul
>
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