“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…”