"When Wild Oats was looking to automate some of its internal operations more than a year ago, it didn't turn to a blue-chip provider such as Microsoft, but to Linux, an open source computer operating system found free on the Web.
"'A really sophisticated package was not required, so on open source, a lot of packages fit that spot,' said Jon Payne, vice president of information technology for Wild Oats, a Boulder, Colo.-based organic food retailer..."
