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LinuxWorld Australia: Penguin Power Serves Up Aus Open Scores

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 23, 2005

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

“Linux has made inroads into the enterprise on the back of
commodity Intel and AMD processors, but this year’s Australian Open
tennis tournament will debut the open source operating system
running on the Power architecture for its Internet scoring
system.

“The tournament, hosted by Tennis Australia, has a history of
Linux use but this year it has been deployed on the latest
generation iSeries Power 5-based system, according to IT manager
Chris Simpfendorfer…”

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Web Webster

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