LinuxWorld Australia: CIO Praises Move to Dell, Linux Servers

"Two years ago, Joe Drouin, global CIO for automotive safety maker TRW, had a decision to make: whether to buy new hardware and continue running one of the auto parts supplier's major ERP systems from QAD on a proprietary Unix environment or standardize his system on a Dell cluster running Linux.

"While TRW had run DNS, file, print and e-mail applications on Linux, the company had never run a mission-critical application like ERP on the open-source software..."

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