Second Life powered by Debian
published on Tue Mar 6 21:21:46 2007 in news, success-stories
Linden Lab, the creators of the Second Life MMORPG (wich grows subscription base 20% monthly), chose Debian GNU/Linux because of its massive horizontal scalability (in March 2007 there were 2000 servers, expected to grow up to 10000 servers) and easy manageability, allowing a small IT staff. They already opened the source of the game clientand ported it to Linux.
Supporting Debian makes sense, commercially speaking.
published on Fri Feb 23 18:34:45 2007 in news, success-stories
According to Jeffrey Wade, worldwide open source marketing manager at HP, supporting Debian for its Proliant and Blade Systems servers was a surprising commercial success: $25 million in hardware sales for 2006 in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) were directly related to HP starting to offer official support for Debian sarge.
In the same article on InternetNews, Wade also assured that official support for Debian etch will be forthcoming soon after the latters release.
HPs Debian/ProLiant support active
published on Wed Nov 29 11:19:25 2006 in news, success-stories
As announced in August, HP has now gone live with support for ProLiant. More information is available at http://hp.com/go/debian.
Debian welcomes HP's support
published on Tue Aug 15 17:01:48 2006 in news, success-stories
HP announced that it has increased Linux distribution support options for customers and expanded its portfolio to include support for Debian GNU/Linux. The company also introduced integrated open source middleware offerings for its channel partners. The support is offered for a range of its BladeSystem server hardware as well as the new t5725 Thin Client hardware.
"With Debian, just like with Red Hat and Novell/SUSE, we'll be taking real calls from real customers to address their support needs", Jeffrey Wade, worldwide marketing manager of open source and Linux at HP told internetnews.com.
Support for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution has been available from various vendors on a case per case basis for a number of years yet. "I find it really pleasing that companies are doing support for Debian not because we've negotiated with them, but because customers are asking for it." said Debian Project Leader Anthony Towns.
Debian GNU/Linux adopted in the Extremadura
published on Thu Aug 3 17:28:30 2006 in news, success-stories
The councillor for Infrastructure and Technological Development, Luis Millán Vázquez de Miguel, announced that within one year all the computers of the Junta of Extremadura (government of the autonomous region of Extremadura, Spain) will run Free Software office tools and gnuLinEx, the local flavour of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, as mandatory operating system. It will be gradually introduced to all administrative organisations of the Junta of Extremadura.
From now on, all workers of the public administration will also use Open Document Formats (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) for their office applications as well as PDF/A (Portable Document Format, ISO 19005-1:2005) for document exchange, when guaranteed unalterable visualisation is required.
Vázquez de Miguel explained that at the end of the period all additional software must be distributed under a free license. "This is an important initiative that the Junta of Extremadura has been working on for a long time, accumulating experience and analysing the impact on our organisation so as to guarantee its success", the councillor declared. According to Vázquez de Miguel, Free Software also improves security, autonomy and rationalises public spending.
Using Open Document Formats will guarantee the conservation of all the administrative documents for longer periods of time. It will also improve the relationship with the general public since it's not obliged to acquire proprietary software to access official documents.
About Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous region in the West of Spain, with a population of about 1 million. It is well known due to its innovative efforts to bring the information society to all citizens, recognised with distinctions such as the 2004 European prize for regional innovation, granted by the European Commission.
About gnuLinEx
gnuLinEx is based on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, with GNOME as the default desktop. In 2004, it was already deployed in all public schools in Extremadura, and was in use in other environments, such as community centres. gnuLinEx closely follows the development of Debian, with a special focus on translation into Spanish, and easy of use and maintenance.
About Debian
Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than a thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique among GNU/Linux distributions.
The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible.