Thanks to Joe Wright for
this link.
“The Home Depot Inc.’s growth is so rapid, the company may have
to turn to the Linux operating system to remotely manage its
mushrooming population of in-store PCs.”
“Home Depot, which already operates more than 800 stores…
Using Linux to run those PCs could offer a key advantage that other
operating systems don’t…”
“Linux would allow support engineers at the company’s Atlanta
headquarters to manage the basic settings of each machine from
within a Web browser.”
“… an argument for choosing Linux over Windows CE is that the
company’s store client applications are written in Java, he
said.
“The extent of Java support for Windows CE is unclear.”