BMW Cools Off Unix on Race to Intel | Linux Today

BMW Cools Off Unix on Race to Intel

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 5, 2007

“Motor giant BMW will migrate about a third of its fleet of
proprietary Unix servers to commodity Intel machines with Linux and
Windows to take on the workloads.

“Eckard Schiffler from BMW’s group data centre in Asia said the
global company has some 80,000 desktops and 6000 servers supporting
about 4500 applications.

“‘BMW IT is highly standardized in both infrastructure and
processes,’ he said…”

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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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