[olug] business case in omaha for linux?

[Bill Brush]

I haven't heard anyone mention this but Mutual of Omaha is (from what I've 
been told) 100% MS-free.  Allegedly they spent millions of dollars to rip 
out Windows and replace it with something without licensing fees.

Bill

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 12/12/2003 01:53:44 PM:

> Someone wrote:
> > IP Revolution ( Not 100% - I am sure they have at least one linux box
> > somewhere )
> 
> Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org> wrote:
> > We (UNO ACM) took a tour there one time, believe they mentioned some 
use
> > of GNU/Linux if I recall correctly.. =)
> 
> As a past employee there, I can say that we used Linux in a variety of
> places including:
> - DNS
> - development boxes
> - customer monitoring (OpenNMS)
> - monitoring of various network links (MRTG)
> - internal customer database (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
> - NAS servers (NFS, Samba)
> 
> In short, if the "geeks" used it for our stuff, we would use Linux where
> possible.  If the server was for the office-staff side of the house, it
> was Windows servers and workstations.
> 
> Dan
> 
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