[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Joan Witte, Communications Manager for Ford Motor Information
Technology, had this statement to make late this afternoon when I
called her at her Detroit office about a story being reported that
Ford was moving to Linux.“Witte said ‘Like any other company, Ford Motor is looking at
Linux, primarily in the application space. We presently have an
enterprise-wide agreement with Microsoft to handle our
collaborative solutions. We aren’t contemplating using Linux in
this area, and don’t contemplate doing that in the foreseeable
future…'”
Related Story:
Scotsman.com:
Microsoft Blow as Ford Signs Up for Linux(Sep 15, 2003)