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Open Source in Northwest Companies
If you use Open Source Software, you're in good company. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the following corporations use Open Source Software for their Information Technology needs:- Amazon.com, Seattle, WA -- Largest e-commerce site in the world!
- Powell's Bookstores, Portland, OR -- Online bookstore
- Real.com, Seattle, WA -- Maker of RealOne media player, has its own Open Source project: Helix
- even Microsoft, in Redmond, WA, uses Linux for its Hotmail web servers and Akamai cache servers.
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The
Molecular Science Computing Facility in Richland, Washington
hosts the 5th fastest computer in the world
running Linux on 1,960 Intel Itanium2 processors.
MSCF is a part of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
The following corporations with a presence in the Northwest provide Open Source Software support for their products:
- IBM hosts the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton, OR
- Hewlett-Packard, Vancouver, WA and Corvallis, OR, offers Open Source Software and services through opensource.hp.com
- Intel, Hillsboro, OR
- Tripwire, Portland, OR
- Pogo Linux, Redmond, WA
- N2H2, Seattle, WA -- Internet Content Filtering
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