Mid-Market Heroes: Linux and Outsourcing Help Virgin America Soar

"The fledgling discount airline is flying high--and saving money--thanks to an IT infrastructure based on open-source apps, inexpensive servers, and outsourcing.

"Despite Richard Branson's role as just a minority investor in the discount airline launched last summer, Virgin America, its IT department still lives up to Branson's brash, iconoclastic reputation in the only way that an IT department can: by going open source..."

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