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Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson' by sheff on Thursday July 05, 2012 @01:11PM (#4203873)
Completely agree with this. If you look at some of the CERN infrastructure pages, you see they use both open source and commercial apps wherever they make sense. For example when I checked out the DB infrastructure a while ago, they seemed to use a lot of Oracle[1] (with some MySQL in there as well), Scientific Linux for some stuff and RHEL where needed ( presumably for support reasons).

[1] https://openlab-mu-internal.web.cern.ch/openlab-mu-internal/...

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Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson' by rbanffy on Thursday July 05, 2012 @08:02PM (#4205651)
Just to point out open-source does not equate to non-commercial. Even if all you do is to report bugs, barter is a valid form of commerce and you are exchanging time for a better product. Also, Oracle Linux and RHEL, despite being paid for, are open-source. Scientific Linux is compiled from Red Hat's sources (as is Oracle's, mostly)
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