Small Business Distribution

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Steve Kilbride<Freebeer at rogers.com> wrote:
> At 08:51 PM 6/16/2009, you wrote:
>>Just a +1 really = The company I work for is 98% linux, and it's that
>>way because it works well, and costs less.

> 98%, eh?  If you care to share (and you can), what kind of business
> is it and what are their requirements?

Muskoka Auto Parts is an auto parts wholesale chain.  We have 10
stores 'throughout Central Ontario' headquartered in Huntsville.

Basically we use old PCs running standard desktops with light
customization for internet, email, the occasional
wordprocessing/spreadsheet bit of work and point of sale.  The bulk of
our software is a monolithic custom application that runs on a server
at head office, and the point of sale 'app' is really just a terminal
session into that over a VPN.  We're actually migrating away from that
to a remotely hosted solution, but as far as the desktops go, it's
just a different terminal session application. Each branch has a
firewall/VPN/print server box.  All of that runs linux.

Head office has a few lonely Macs for marketing and historical
reasons, and there are three Windows PCs for the specialized areas
where only Win apps are currently available.

I guess 98% is an exaggeration depending on how you slice it.  Per
box, right now, roughly counting it's 72 Linux boxes, 9 other...

Brian