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Save Mart grocery chain sees savings in open source
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| With about 245 stores, three warehouses, 20,000-plus employees, and a
| trucking fleet as part of a multi-billion-dollar grocery operation, Modesto,
| Calif.-based Save Mart has discovered that where it made a shift to
| open-source software for databases, operating systems and network management,
| it lowered costs by more than half.
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| "Open source is profoundly less expensive,” says Sims, citing the adoption of
| SuSe Linux, the Ingres open-source database, MySQL, and Hobbit open-source
| monitoring as changes that contributed to over 50% in IT savings in
| comparison to the proprietary software from Oracle, Microsoft Windows or HP
| OpenView that was replaced.
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| Open source “is free but we do pay for support and services,” Sim’s points
| out, noting that Save Mart has established vendor alliances with Novell, Red
| Hat and Ingres to support open-source software the grocery retailer uses.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062909-save-mart-open-source.html
Another massive success story.
Recent:
The Russians Are Coming...
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| [Via Google Translate: The company ALT Linux and OpenGO (Ventox Boundless
| Brasil) announce the opening of the representation of ALT Linux in Brazil.
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| Such a move by the ALT Linux is due to a desire to gather around the
| repository Sisyphus the widest range of developers and is part of a strategy
| to expand the market by other countries...]
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/russians-are-coming.html
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