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Yahoo!/Investor’s Business Daily: Linux Could Become A Big Force In The Weather-Forecasting Field

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2004

“Can the penguin fight storms?

“The flock of hurricanes that hit Florida this season is putting
more pressure on forecasters to provide fast, reliable
information.

“The National Weather Service and others use supercomputers to
create models of hurricanes to boost accuracy in forecasting where
a storm is headed in a few hours or days…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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