Blog 9

There are many organizations and companies who use Linux. Find a few of them and tell us who they are, how they use it and anything else you can find out about it.

First, let me say that finding up-to-date or current information on the internet is quite a challenge in itself. Almost all of the company information that I found was from 2000 to 2003. I finally found some from 2008.

3Tera is a software company that uses Linux to build their applications. They build an one called AppLogic and they are on the forefront of ‘Cloud Computing’.

Alfresco is a software company that has a product called ‘Enterprise Content Management’. One part of this application is a shared editing tool that was built using Linux. It's for sharing documents on the web (like Microsoft’s Sharepoint application). This is being used to manage content on Facebook.

Amazon is a huge open source user. Amazon is trying to get into the Cloud Computing with Elastic Compute Cloud. It is also, providing storage services with a product called Simple Storage Service. They have come out with a device called Kindle eBook that is a really cool mobile Linux device. Now that I have found it, I want one. It might have to wait since it costs $359.oo.