Ventura IT has long realized that LAMP/Unix, FreeBSD, Linux is the best choice for web applications, web servers, and firewalls. Below are some articles and links that we feel prove this without a doubt. We also use Ubuntu for our desktops because of the increased security, reduced cost, and increased speed.
If you would like to know more about how you can save money, get more speed and more security by using Unix/LAMP/php/mysql for your web applications please contact us for a free consultation.
Don’t worry we still do some of the best .net programming in the world and think that Windows is a great product!
Reasons to use open source Unix/Linix/FreeBSD
London Stock Exchange suffers .NET Crash
http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_suffers_net_crash
Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linuxhttp://www.itpro.co.uk/615985/why-the-london-stock-exchange-went-for-linux
Google has many tens of thousands of FreeBSD-based devices helping to run its production networks (Juniper, Force10, NetApp, etc..)
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/freebsd/about.html
FreeBSD is used as a platform for devices and products from many of the world’s largest IT companies, including: Apple, Cisco, Juniper, NetApp. FreeBSD is also used to power some of the biggest sites on the Internet, including: Yahoo!, Yandex, Apache, Rambler, Sina, Pair Networks, Sony Japan, Netcraft, NetEase, Weathernews, TELEHOUSE America, Experts Exchange.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/nutshell.html
IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office – 360,000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony.
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products
[Google's] Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: [Linux]LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack
Government/Public Sector Using Unix/Linux
German Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (BA)
The German government’s agency for labor has migrated 13,000 information terminals from Windows to Linux.
French Ministry for Education
The ministry has migrated over 3,000 servers to Linux – nearly all of their servers – with the majority running Red Hat.
Library of Congress, USA
Thousands of rare historic documents housed by the Library of Congress are being digitalized using Linux clusters and other Linux-based systems and the open source Scribe system.
Portuguese Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice of Portugal is implementing a plan called LISA to incorporate Free and Open Source software into their IT infrastructure as a way to be innovative while also cutting costs.
Swedish Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of Sweden announced in February of 2007 that they would be migrating their servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Government of Switzerland
In mid-December 2005, the Swiss government announced that it would be carrying out a large-scale migration of servers to Novell’s SUSE Linux.
Berlin, Germany
The city government of Berlin announced in early December, 2005 that they would be migrating most of their 58.000 Windows desktops to Linux.
New Zealand’s Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue Department of New Zealand announced in late October 2005 that they would be migrating 7,000 desktop systems to Linux.
Munich, Germany
Munich’s city government announced it was migrating its entire IT operations to the Linux platform in 2002. Despite a personal visit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the German city is continuing with its plans to switch 14,000 desktops to Linux.
The Government of Japan
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced in early October 2005 its plans to key government systems to Linux in order to decrease its dependency on Microsoft products.
Junta de Extramadura, Spain
The Junta de Extremadura, the regional government of Extremadura, is a pioneer in the use of Linux in the public sector. They have also developed their own Linux distribution called LinEx. The have embarked on a large-scale migration of their IT infrastructure, which includes switching 14 hospitals and over 400 local health care centers to Linux. The have also installed Linux in 80,000 computers in their public schools.
Vienna, Austria
Officials in Vienna’s city government announced at the beginning of 2005 that they would be migrating one third of their desktops to Linux. Other desktops, though still running Windows, would be using OpenOffice. They are also reportedly developing their own Linux distribution, called Wienux.
Bergen, Norway
Norway’s second largest city announced in June, 2004 its plans to migrate its core IT infrastructure to Linux. A combination of Unix and Windows servers will be phased out and replaced with servers running Linux.
South African Revenue Service
The South African Revenue serviced announced in April of 2005 that it was moving its SAP system on to Linux servers running Novell’s SUSE Linux.
Ministry of Health, New Zealand
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health announced in February 2005 that they were migrating servers running Windows to Linux.
Largo, Florida, USA
The city of Largo, Florida was one of the first high-profile migrations to Linux in the public sector. The switch began in 2000 when David Richards, the systems administrator for the city began switching webservers to Red Hat Linux. He followed in 2001 by beginning the change to thin clients running Linux.
Pinellas County, Florida
Public access to county court records database is provided by servers running Linux.
Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana
The city of Bloomington’s emergency dispatch system runs on Linux. Police and fire crews are managed by the system.
United States Postal Service
One of the earliest known Linux adoptions was the U.S. Postal Service’s switch to Linux in 1997. A Linux-based system was set up to run OCR equipment that recognizes the destination addresses on letters.
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
It was announced in November of 2003 that PEC Solutions of Fairfax, Virginia would be taking on the task of migrating the Federal Judiciary’s entire national IT infrastructure to Linux. The system will handle case management, finance and accounting, probation and pretrial services, and case-tracking management.
The Federal Government of Brazil
Linux and Open Source software will be mandatory for government agencies in Brazil according to a presidential decree being drafted in early 2005.
Mexico City, Mexico
The capital of Mexico has been migrating its IT infrastructure to Linux since the election of Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2000.
National Security Agency, USA
One of the pillars of the intelligence community of the United States, the NSA developed its own custom enhancements to the Linux kernel, known as Security Enhanced Linux or SE Linux.
Department of Human Services, New Jersey, USA
State IT officials migrated the Child-Welfare Implementation System to Linux, greatly speeding up the time it takes case workers to access records.
The State of Nebraska, USA
The State of Nebraska has migrated some of its key IT infrastructure to Linux.
United States Census Bureau
The Fast Facts website is a Linux-based web application.
United States Department of Energy
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a Beowulf cluster powered by Linux servers. In 2002, it was the most powerful Linux-based system in the world.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USA
The FBI’s Dallas, Texas office uses a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python) solution to provide an Emergency Response Network. The system links federal, state and local agency and insures fast response times in the event of emergencies.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
NASA has been a long time user of Linux and Open Source software. Debian GNU/Linux was used to control experiments on the Space Shuttle mission STS-83 in April, 1997
State of Mississippi, USA
The state’s Automated System Project, which runs on Linux servers, coordinates state, local and federal law enforcement agencies’ access to information. The project, funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, serves as a model for a future nationwide system.
Ministry of Information and Communication, South Korea
The ministry is funding projects within the South Korean government that use Linux and Open Source.
The Government of Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez issued a decree in December 2004 that calls on the Minister for Science and Technology to draw up a national plan for transition of Venezuela’s public administration to Open Source software. The Ministry of Sports and Education, which has already made the switch, saved up to 4 billion Bolivares in 2004 on their IT costs.
Government Open Code Collaborative, USA
The states of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia share Open Source applications through a repository at the University of Rhode Island. GOCC hosts these applications for sharing among government entities and non-profits.
Central Scotland Police, Scotland, UK
Central Scotland Police have developed a Linux-based system to facilitate the public’s access to government data as mandated in the Freedom of Information Act.
Centrelink, Australia
Centrelink is the government agency that distributes social security payments in Australia. The agency’s 27,000 staff will use a Linux-based system to distribute $55 billion AU to over 6 million users.
Ministry of Finance, Denmark
The Ministry uses a JBoss application server running on Red Hat Linux to exchange XML data among ministries in Denmark.
United States Navy
The US Navy employs Linux clusters to run sonar systems on nuclear submarines.
Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria
Education officials in Nigeria had migrated 35 high schools to Linux in 2003.
Northern Territory, Australia
The government of the Northern Territory has pledged to increase the use of open source technologies. As of May 2005, $35 million AU has been spent already migrating desktops to Linux.
Industry Using Unix/Linux
AIG Sales, South Africa
South African steel and pipe company AIG Sales migrated their DOS-based accounting system to one running Sage on Linux servers.
Amadeus Development Company
Amadeus, a travel reservations system provider, uses Linux extensively throughout their operations.
Axfood
The Scandinavian food retailer is using Red Hat Linux to power their SAP business software. The are also using the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, also provided by Red Hat.
Banrisul
One of the largest banks in Brazil, all of Banrisul’s ATM machines run the Linux operating system.
BMW
BMW uses Xen virtualization technology on Novell’s SUSE Linux in their data center.
BMW Williams Formula 1
The Formula 1 team uses an Linux cluster built by Hewlett-Packard to carry out high-resolution aerodynamic modelling of its team’s cars.
Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines has switched over to Linux to power their ticket-reissuing system.
Country Energy, NSW, Australia
A Linux user since 1995, Country Energy has been steadily moving more and more systems over to Linux.
Deutsche Bahn
German railway system manager Deutsche Bahn began in late 2004 to migrate its servers to Linux. The migrated systems include a Lotus Notes server, a SAP system and their web servers. Other systems will follow.
Endress+Hauser
In the summer of 2004, the sensors and instruments manufacturer migrated its SAP system on to a mainframe running Linux.
Ernie Ball Inc.
The guitar string manufacturer abandoned Microsoft and migrated its entire IT infrastructure to Linux after a highly publicized audit by the Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-funded licensing watchdog.
Fiat
The Italian automaker uses a Linux-based system to run its European sales and support network.
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai uses a Linux cluster built by IBM for crash simulation tests and analysis.
LIF (Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry)
LIF uses Red Hat Linux to power their information portal where they provide information about medicines.
PayPal
The on-line payment manager runs its web presence and middleware tier on thousands of Linux servers
Pioneer Petroleum
Ontario, Canada gasoline retailer Pioneer Petroleum are migrating computers in their stations to Red Hat Linux Workstation.
Priority Healthcare Corp.
The Florida-based pharmaceutical company has migrated its infrastructure to IBM eServer xSeries servers running Red Hat Linux.
PSA Peugeot Citroën
The European automaker has a contract with Novell Inc. to migrate over 20,000 desktops and 2000 servers to SUSE Enterprise Linux.
Qantas Airways
Qantas has migrated 80% of their datacenter servers to Linux.
Sallie Mae Inc.
The student loan provider uses Linux extensively in their IT infrastructure.
Singapore Airlines
Red Hat Linux powers its KrisWorld in-flight entertainment system.
Spanair
The Spanish airline is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux in two of their major areas of operation.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
The owner of the Le Meridien and Sheraton hotel chains uses Linux to run their reservations system.
Statoil
Norway’s largest oil company has migrated some key pieces of their IT infrastructure to Red Hat Linux.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange
In early 2005, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began to migrate their Sparc hardware running Sun’s Solaris to commodity servers running Linux.
Thrifty Car Rental
Thrifty is running a large percentage of their IT infrastructure on Ubuntu Linux
Unilever
The Anglo-Dutch food conglomerate started a migration to open source and Linux in 2004.
Union Bank of California
The California USA based bank has migrated its IT infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Virgin America Airlines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers the airline’s web presence.
Volvo
Volvo is using an IBM-built Linux cluster to process vehicle crash test data.
Welch Foods Inc.
The jam, jelly and juice maker switched to Dell servers running Oracle on Linux in early 2005
Arts and Entertainment Using Unix/Linux
Digital Domain
Digital Domain of Venice, California, used Linux servers to aid in the CGI (computer generated image) process for the Oscar-winning film Titanic.
DreamWorks
The animation studio has used Linux in the production of several of their top movies, including Shrek, Shrek 2, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and Shark Tale.
Film: Sin City
Director Robert Rodriguez pioneered the use of Dual Link, or “4:4:4″ format in his film Sin City. The process used a Linux-based RaveHD DDR.
Weta Digital
Weta Digital of New Zealand ran Red Hat Linux on hundreds of rackmounted servers to render images for the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings films.
