[ Thanks to Phillip Brown for this
link. ]
“It’s a difficult and ultimately futile effort to try to
categorize a typical Linux-using enterprise today. Consider, for
example, Eu Yan Sang (EYS), a 120-year-old company headquartered in
Singapore that specializes in traditional Chinese
medicine—including some 3,000-year-old herbal remedies. The
company recently deployed a real-time point-of-sale application on
Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 3.0 and Oracle Application Server
10g to solve its supply chain problem. Although EYS has 72 retail
stores across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, the lack of
connectivity between its stores and production facilities resulted
in continual overstock and understock situations, as well as a lack
of visibility into the order-fulfillment process and current sales
trends. With its Linux-based solution, EYS has cut inventory levels
while increasing its sales-cycle visibility…”