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Re: [News] Travelocity's parent company hails Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 21 August 2008 17:01 : \____

> <Quote>
> Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for
> Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the
> corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services
> businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.
> 
> Robert Wiseman, Sabre's chief technology officer, said the Southlake,
> Texas-based company began using Red Hat and other open source software
> about 2004. Red Hat now runs mission-critical online systems that
> collectively process as many as 32,000 transactions per second from
> three data centers in Tulsa, Okla., and one in Texas, he said.
> </Quote>
> 
>
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1326240,00.html
> 
> Article goes on to say that a major motivation in use of OSS was the
> ability to access and change the software.
> 
> If Linux crashes (or is it freezes?) every 3 minutes like DFS says,
> why do $3 billion corporations use it?

They don't run it on a $3 'DFS configuaration'.

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