Re: [LUG] household names that use GNU/Linux

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Brough wrote:
> 
> Sorry to be picky Simon, I was thinking of household names (as in users
> of open source) not the actual applications they used

Lets see root nameservers (all BIND 9);

Verisign
PSI
University of Maryland
NASA
DoD
University of Tokyo
+Various others no one in the UK who isn't a techie will have heard of.


Apache
======

Google (some services -- definitely not all)
Apple
HP
BBC
American Express (+Linux)

+The largest single website server software by website count.
+The largest single server of secure websites by website count (having
just taken this from Microsoft IIS).


Linux
=====

SUN (some of)
Amazon -- (they have a few solaris boxes as well).
Google -- some services (not all).

Akamai use this to accelerate a few big name websites even where many of
the websites run other software and platforms.
        Small selection of Akamai clients include;
         Marks and Spencers
         Saks
         Volvo
         Tivo
         Accenture
         Blockbuster
         Fedex
         Cathay Pacific
         FBI
         Visa
         Nike

Heck Netcraft thinks that SCO use Apache on Linux?!?

flickr -- Apache + Linux

Yahoo -- Free BSD

georgewbush.com -- recent freeBSD + Apache convert from the dark side
apparently ;)



Online Banking
==============

Smile - Apache
HSBC - Linux + Apache
Co-Operative Bank - Apache
Yorkshire Bank (part of National Australia Bank Ltd) - Apache

Even where the Banks web presence is provided by proprietary software,
and a lot are, the DNS is often entrusted to BIND (e.g. Lloyds TSB),

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