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