Acme
Financial Services: A
Linuxworld Demo
A
final LinuxWorld note.
We
can't resist noting that while vendors sometimes find it difficult
to cooperate, 9 of them got together at LinuxWorld to create a
demonstration as to how Linux might work in a real live business
situation. They
created a 4,000 square foot lecture, demonstration, and data
center space and showed visitors how the mythical Acme Financial
Services worked, with solutions for everything from desktop
productivity to remote wireless, enterprise storage and data
management, and the Internet.
Since
it was a cooperative venture, the system included servers from NEC
and HP and databases from MySQL, Sybase, and Oracle.
Other participants included Dell, Intel, Linux
International, and systems integrator Wild Open Source.
Such
demonstrations - and explanations - there were 25 presentations -
go a long way in showing it's real.
And that's what a show like LinuxWorld is really about -
letting the Linux community know just how far we've gotten and
where we might be going next.
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