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

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2008

“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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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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