[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“After years of running a complex tangle of Unix operating
systems in its global IT server operations, consumer products
company The Unilever Group is committing its technological future
to Linux.“The company, which sells food products including Ragu spaghetti
sauce, Hellman’s mayonnaise and Bertolli olive oil as well as
personal hygiene brands such as Dove soaps and skin creams, plans
to adopt Linux for its IT systems in all 80 countries where it
operates. The company made the announcement here at the LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo yesterday in the Jacob Javits Convention
Center.“‘We believe… that it will deliver all of our computing needs
in the eight- to 10-year time frame,’ said Colin Hope-Murray, chief
technology officer at Unilever, which is based in London and
Rotterdam, Netherlands. “We want to be able to cookie-cut our
systems and deliver them around the world” without having to worry
about operating system compatibility issues, he said. The company
today runs systems with the HP-UX, AIX and Tru64 versions of
Unix…”