Oct 12, 2001 : Linux Adopted by Finland's Sonera

📅 October 12, 2001 - Linux, the free computer operating system invented by Finn Linus Torvalds, made its first big splash at home on Thursday when it was embraced by Finland's leading broadband Internet provider Sonera Entrum (sonera.fi).

Entrum, which provides high-speed Internet access for 500,000 private and70,000 corporate subscribers, said it has replaced 60 different Unix andWindows NT servers from different vendors with a single computer containing500 virtual servers running Linux software installed by Red Hat and SuSE.Linux is free, open-source software, which means that all code is public andcan be adapted by companies and individuals.
Software engineer Torvalds invented Linux a decade ago and other volunteershave developed it to rival Microsoft's Windows and different Unix platformsfrom Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Sun Microsystems. Linux has started to winover big corporate users in the past 18 months. Companies such asAnglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell, Venezuelan bank Banco Mercantileand Sweden's Telia have replaced many of their servers with machinesoperating on Linux.
The Sonera Entrum deal is similar in size to Telia's by number of servers.The Telia contract, signed late last year, was then the largest commercialLinux adoption. Neither company gave any indication of the value of thedeals. The new computer, produced by International Business Machines Corp,requires less energy, needs 75 percent less office space and allows Entrumto integrate all its services on one system and tweak the software if itwants to adds new services. Entrum is expanding its basic Internet access byadding services such as Internet telephony, data security, network servicesand other applications in future that the company declined to specify.
"We're looking for new business. Normally you need separate servers forseparate services," Entrum's Technical director Pasi Sutinen said. "Becausethe virtual Linux servers are all part of one computer, they can share theircomputing capacity, he added. The computer also can add new virtual serverson the fly, he said. Linux has been embraced by IBM as a flexiblealternative to licensed software systems.
With Linux, companies can quickly add or remove computers without worryingabout licenses for the operating software. Over the past year the softwarehas been tested for business-critical applications, and major deals havestarted to come through. Recent announcements indicate Linux usage isbecoming more versatile, with the operating system moving into manydifferent applications, not just Internet computers. Musicland Stores Corp,the U.S. company that owns the Sam Goody music retail chain, earlierinstalled Linux and Java-based cash registers.

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