Overstock.com is using a Linux based storage solution provided by Teradata. The company stores 18Tb of data on a 10 nodes solution.

The New York Stock Exchange-EuroNext is heavily relying on RedHat to run its infrastructure. And the justification is not only cost.

IDABC(Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens) has published a news on the use of open source at the german air traffic control, as was presented at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nurnberg.

Impetus for looking at open source was the fact that some proprietary software used was not supported anymore, or running on hardware not being made anymore. This situation was not acceptable in highly regulated environment, needed 99.9% availability. Currently there are already 1030 applications running on GNU/Linux systems. The switch was made from Unix systems, which eased porting applications.

NuFw adds user based filtering to the linux IP filtering layer iptables. It was developed by INL and released under GPL.
The agreement will enable the schools using the Amon firewall to use NuFW.
Amon, with currently 7000 deployment, is developed under the EOLE umbrella, aiming to develop Free and Open solutions under the GPL license.

As seen on Toolinux.

After switching to OpenOffice in 2005 and to Mozilla Firefox and Thuderbird in 2006, the french Gendarmerie is switching to Ubuntu. The goal is to have the 70000 PCs moved to Ubuntu within 5 years.

As seen on Linuxfr.

1&1 is working with Funambol to deploy a push email solution, integrating with OpenXchange, already used by 1&1.

Funambol's solution is dually licensed: client under the GPL and server under the custom HPL license for the Community Edition, and under a commercial license for the Carrier Edition. The HPL license is based on the GPL, with the precision that distribution of software as a service is the same as distribution on a physical media.

Client and server bundles, together with several SDKs, are available for download. Several community projects are also developed, with as examples connectors for Zimbra, Gmail, SugarCRM, etc...

As Funambol also provides professional support, could this be the right solution for a company looking to deploy a push email solution?

Thanks to: The Open Road