SearchEnterpriseLinux: Healthcare Companies Fill Prescription for Linux

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"A migration to Linux by Priority Healthcare Corp. could signal that yet another industry is about to get on board with the open source operating system.

"On Thursday, the Lake Mary, Fla.-based specialty pharmacy and distributor went public, saying that over the past few months it had switched out its series of Dell PowerEdge servers for a handful of IBM eServer xSeries servers running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. The news comes on the heels of several health-care-related announcements from Big Blue over the past few weeks..."

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