“Sometimes, companies end up gaining advantages from Linux even
though Linux wasn’t mainly what they had in mind. That’s what
happened when online sporting goods retailer Anaconda Sports
replaced its outgrown e-comm server with an IBM Websphere
architecture combining Linux and Windows 2000 components.“‘We weren’t exactly shouting, ‘We must have Linux!’ But our DB2
server running Linux has worked out great,’ said Rob Meyer,
Anaconda’s director of Internet services.“SCS, Inc. is hosting the Linux-based database server, along
with IBM WebSphere Commerce Server 5.5 and WebSphere Application
Server 4.0, both running Microsoft’s W2K…”