“For several years, German automobile manufacturer Audi AG, a
subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has been steadily migrating its
engineering systems over to Linux. The company hopes to finish the
job in 2007 and have the bulk of its servers and workstations
running 64-bit Linux by the end of the year.“Recently Audi, whose longstanding motto is ‘Vorsprung durch
Technik’ (‘Progress through technology’), has been upgrading to
64-bit Linux in deploying its automotive CAE (Computer-Aided
Engineering) servers, where simulation software is used in the
design of casts, frames, and components, as well as for crash-test
simulations and other 3-D visualization problems, as part of the
greater migration to Linux…”