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ZDNet UK: Linux Taken For a Ride in the Old West

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 20, 2006

Q: Steamboat Springs’ first use of Linux was on the
server. What sort of applications are you running on these servers?
Are you still running Microsoft Windows servers as
well?

A: In the last five years we’ve made a lot of
progress–we’ve moved all our file and print servers, approximately
90 percent of our Web server activity and several mission critical
applications to Linux. The server running a mission critical
revenue generating application has been an extremely stable
machine–if it hadn’t been for a major power outage, it would have
been running for three years without a reboot…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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