ZDNet UK: Linux fells another NT dot com | Linux Today

ZDNet UK: Linux fells another NT dot com

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 2, 2000

“British rock star and Internet entrepreneur Bob Geldof
became an unlikely advocate of open source computing Thursday: his
company, Deckchair.com, is to move [from NT] over to the Linux
operating system.”

“A spokesman at the European Linux 2000 expo in London says
Deckchair.com is to receive a technical overhaul to use the Linux
operating system along with IBM’s DB2 database technology and
Netfinity hardware.”

“Deckchair.com is one of the biggest of the new dot coms to
commit to Linux and IBM middleware…”

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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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