ZDNet: Open Source Creates U.S. Manufacturing Jobs | Linux Today

ZDNet: Open Source Creates U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 15, 2006

“Open Source Storage has just opened a 32,000 square foot
manufacturing plant. In Sunnyvale. California. On the old Atari
campus.

“CEO Eren Niazi said the fully-automated facility can turn out
1,000 systems a day. They can do reference designs, and turn around
a customer in days instead of weeks. Open source software is used
for the systems’ internals, and most wind up being loaded with LAMP
stacks, used as enterprise Web servers…”

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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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