[LUAU] OSS in our Airport and at other Businesses

[R. Scott Belford]

Next time that you are in the airport, and you are there early, watch 
them boot up one of the agriculture inspection machines from this company

http://www.smithsdetection.com/

The name on the side is Heimann Systems, and it is powered by some 
distro of Linux.  I couldn't get close enough, legally, to see which.

This leads me to wonder, though, where in our business and government 
communities OSS is in use these days.


Retail

We know that a lot of our local retailers use Point of Sale Systems that 
run on Linux.


Web Services

We know that, if netcraft averages hold true, 70% of local sites are 
powered by Apache


Banking

We have known for a few years that BOH was using freebsd for logging, 
proxy serving, spam filtering, email, dns, and more.  I learned 
yesterday of a new OSS project that they have developed for keeping 
track of in-house documentation.


ISP's

I know that LavaNet and Flex depend on freebsd and I think that  RR uses 
postfix.


Innovation

Comtel, PauSpam, and Tiki Technologies come to mind quite often as two 
companies using an OSS basis to create a valued product (as have tivo, 
apple, google, orbitz, heimann, etc.)


Service, Support, and Training

I know of a few.  Anyone else claim to be in this arena?


Military

I don't have the clearance to have even a clue.


--scott