Some may ask, "Is anyone but the geek tinkerers using open source" - well I was putting around the web the other day, and came across this interesting article about how the entire US Postal Service tracking system is run on about 1,300 servers running open source Linux, the tracking system has to deal with about 40,000,000 new transactions per day (not counting existing items to track) - that is a LOT of stuff to track.
Open source is no small potatoes, and is in use in enterprise environments the world over. We run many of our solutions on open source, and most of the time they provide higher efficiency with more features than commercial platforms costing $100,000s of dollars!
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