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An Auto Company Zips Along the Fast Lane with FOSS
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| Started in March 2009, Carnation Autoâa
| multi-brand automobile sales and services
| network set up by the former MD of Maruti
| Suzuki, Jagdish Khattarâoffers car owners a
| wide array of services covering servicing,
| mechanical repairs, body repairs,
| accessories, insurance, pre-owned cars, car
| customisation solutions, etc. From rectifying
| scratches and bumps, to transforming off-the-
| assembly-line cars into one-of-a-kind
| attention-grabbers with accessories,
| Carnation has grown to 15 hubs across 10
| cities, with more than 700 employees âall in
| a matter of nine months.
|
| [...]
|
| Looking ahead, Carnation hopes to deploy open
| source on its existing desktops. âWe have
| about 20 desktops per hub. We are looking at
| an open source desktop platform in these hubs
| in about a year. We are looking at tremendous
| cost savings, and the easy management of
| front-end usersâ systems, which are like
| points of sale,â quips Agarwal. It sure is
| life on the fast lane for Carnation!
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http://www.linuxforu.com/views/an-auto-company-zips-along-the-fast-lane-with-foss/
Growing demand for Linux......
New president at Linux Australia
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/176563,new-president-at-linux-australia.aspx
Linux Australia chief Turnbull steps down
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| Turnbull told iTWire that he was moving to
| the United States to take up a role as
| director of operations at Puppet Labs, which
| provides services for the open source Puppet
| configuration management system.
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http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/39460-linux-australia-chief-turnbull-steps-down
Recent:
How BMW virtualised with SuSE Linux and Xen
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| BMW is using the Xen para virtualisation tool
| in SuSE Linux Enterprise Server to run test
| and development production systems. The
| company has deployed Xen to replace its
| ageing PA-Risc, Sun Sparc and IBM Power 4/5
| Unix server hardware with industry-standard
| PC servers.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/20/241312/how-bmw-virtualised-with-suse-linux-and-xen.htm
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