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IBM bets US$2.9 Billion on Linux for Manufacturing Plant

IBM has selected Linux to run the world's most advanced computer chip manufacturing plant. Why Linux? As Perry Hartswick, IBM Manager for the division stated: "... just for fun, we kept the Linux experiment running to see what would happen. We finally shut it off after 5 months, and it was still running like a clock." Read more...