Linux Business Uses?

[kevin11951]

I parroted this list from System76's website:

• Application Hosting
• Backup Server
• Collaboration Wiki
• Customer Relationship Management
• Database Applications
• Directory, DNS, and DHCP Services
• Email Server
• File and Print Services
• Human Resources Management
• VOIP Server
• LTSP Deployments
• Mission Critical Applications
• Support Ticket Systems
• Web Applications
• Virtualization
• Web Hosting

Does anyone have anything else Linux is good at, but is also useful for a business?

[RiceMonster]

• Mission Critical Applications

Just saying, that's a pretty generic term. "Mission Critical" applications could be pretty much anything.

[pookiebear]

router
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game server hosting


I think by mission critical the OP meant "real-time"
as in machine control like die cutting or CNC machines or manufacturing robotics controls.

[swoll1980]

Linux is great for businesses that need custom solutions.

[tgm4883]

router
firewall
game server hosting


I think by mission critical the OP meant "real-time"
as in machine control like die cutting or CNC machines or manufacturing robotics controls.

OP pulled it from System76. In any case, mission critical is a generic term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_critical

Mission critical refers to any factor of a system (equipment, process, procedure, software, etc.) whose failure will result in the failure of business operations. That is, it is critical to the organization's 'mission'.

It has nothing to do with what job function the machine actually performs. For a marketing firm, email is mission critical. For a CNC machine, email isn't critical.

[Dragonbite]

What about Firewall and Content Filtering?

[papibe]

Mission Critical example: Linux powers world's fastest stock exchange.

Edit: and this: NYSE undertakes IBM mainframe migration to Unix and Linux.

Regards.

[snowpine]

United States Navy nuclear submarine fleet runs on Linux, now THAT's mission critical!

[Dragonbite]

Any good POS applications (POS = Point of Sale, like a cash register)? If so (which I think is likely) then Ubuntu could be a cash register/POS system.

[fuduntu]

router
firewall
game server hosting


I think by mission critical the OP meant "real-time"
as in machine control like die cutting or CNC machines or manufacturing robotics controls.

real-time isn't necessarily mission critical. You could have a real time stock feed on your web portal, but if it went down you didn't lose money.

Mission Critical means it costs money for every {second,minute,hour} of down-time.