Virgin Mobile Implements MySQL Enterprise
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| Virgin Mobile, a leading Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), has
| implemented a MySQL Enterprise Platinum subscription to manage its data using
| the world's most popular open source database.
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http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2008_02.html
Virgin also chose GNU/Linux for its aircraft.
Last week:
Tech fuels flight
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| We are using two dozen open source products, thanks to which we have saved
| close to $6 million for Virgin America in the last two years. Products today
| are mature enough to not cause undue risk. Our e-Commerce site, which does 80
| per cent of our business today, runs on open source.
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2008/01/07/stories/2008010750080300.htm
Related:
Virgin America tunes up with YSlow
,----[ Quote ]
| The travel start up has been making great use of open source in its software
| infrastructure during the launch phase, with Red Hat and Fedora running in
| its data center and on its web servers, a virtual private network using open
| source, and in-flight entertainment severs using MySQL and back-of-seat TV
| sets that are powered by Panasonic's Linux aboard its aircraft.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/26/virgin_america_open_source/
Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner
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| This Red Hat-based system also is installed on Qantas Airways and on Boeing
| 777s operated by Delta and Continental. eX2, the newest version of
| Panasonic's in-flight entertainment systems, offers not the canned radio
| stations of yesteryear, but rather audio and video on demand, games, and even
| online books, depending on the carrier.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119544
Singapore Airlines puts a PC in every seat
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| The whole system runs on Red Hat's distribution of the Linux operating
| system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=686973581&rid=-50
StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
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| Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office
| productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing
| 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of
| OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed
| via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2964256534.html
Airborne Linux Hackers Unite!
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| Virgin America calls their new in-flight entertainment system “Red,” but it
| is really a gigantic sociological experiment in airborne distributed
| computing.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/airborne-linux-hackers-unite/
Virgin America
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| The IFE runs Linux, boots over the network and has a full qwerty
| keyboard.
|
| [...]
|
| Finally, the IFE has Doom on it, I don't know if it is multiplayer
| or not. There is a competition going where you can submit your
| Open Source games for evaluation if they can run on the aircraft,
| a new target for game makers.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/_virgin_america.html
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