[PLUG] Fw: [alg] From IBM PR...

[Michael H.Collins]

More fodder.

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Date: 23 May 2002 08:46:18 -0500
From: Joe Barr <warthawg at austin.rr.com>
To: ALG <alg at austinlug.org>
Subject: [alg] From IBM PR...



<quote>

Today, IBM announced the largest deployment of Linux in the retail
industry.

Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores, the $5 billion manufacturer, distributor
and retailer of paint, coatings and related products with over 2,500
stores and 25,000 employees announced that it has turned to IBM to
provide technology and services to support Sherwin- Williams' customers
in a multi-store environment, improve customer service and create an
innovative, flexible front-end system and user-friendly  experience.

The company worked with a Linux services team from IBM Global Services
to design and integrate an in-store network that will consist of  9700
IBM NetVista personal computers for all 2500-plus stores, all running
Linux.

One desktop PC will serve as an in-store server and another as a
manager's workstation, improving customer service by enabling
accessibility to both servers and their respective applications from any
workstation in the store. The Sherwin-Williams Point of Sale and
inventory applications will run in the Linux environment. In addition,
all peripherals such as printers, scanners, cash drawers and switches
will be Linux compatible, offering a flexible, open architecture that is
easily adaptable with inventory and sales applications running on the
Linux platform at workstations throughout the Sherwin-Williams chain.
The bottom line:  IBM provided Sherwin-Williams with reduced costs, a
single source vendor for hardware,software and services;  utlimately,
making the move from SCO UNIX to Linux.....painless.

</quote>


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