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07/25/2001 Archived Entry: "Linux Takes On Big Jobs"

ZDNet: Interactive Week: Linux Takes On Big Jobs

At a time when Microsoft is warning of the perils of open source code, Korean Air is mounting one of the biggest mission-critical deployments using Linux open source software.

Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at its Seoul headquarters. The 3,000 pilots and flight crew members will query the mainframe system to check the status of their assignments. In September, 5,000 users will be getting their scheduling information through the system, which can be accessed via a Web browser.

"This is one of the most high-profile uses of Linux in a mission-critical system," said Bill Claybrook, Aberdeen Group's research director for open source code. He estimated that there are a dozen mission-critical systems now in use on mainframes.