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McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux 471

Posted by CowboyNeal from the would-you-like-fries-with-that dept.
sglafata writes "Novell has made an announcement that McDonald's is moving towards Linux. 'With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.'"
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  • soo... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:42AM (#9395705)
    so, are they going to start serving penguinburgers?

    • Re:soo... (Score:5, Funny)

      by tokachu(k) ( 780007 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:46AM (#9395727) Journal
      I think you mean "lizardburgers", as it's SuSE. In that case, it starts today.

      In other news, will SCO be suing them later for either health problems or copyright infringment?

      • Re:soo... (Score:5, Informative)

        by Zog The Undeniable ( 632031 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:45AM (#9395972)
        It's a chameleon called Geeko [suse.com].

      • Re:soo... (Score:5, Funny)

        by frs_rbl ( 615298 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:32AM (#9396104) Journal
        From SCO's site (no link to increase their page rank) Think they're going to sue one of their own clients for copyright infringement? ;-) Sour pill to swallow...

        Case Study: McDonald's

        "The everyday business of a McDonald's restaurant requires a stable operating system that can give round-the-clock performance," said John Doty, Director of US Information Technology for McDonald's Corporation's Store Systems. "We are very pleased with the performance of SCO UNIX®. SCO's platform has provided us with a very stable and reliable system. SCO UNIX® has been a dependable platform for thousands of McDonald's restaurants over the past 10 years and we're looking forward to migrating our restaurants to the current version."

        McDonald's Serves It Up with SCO UNIX® World's Largest Restaurant Food Chain Planning Migration to Latest SCO UNIX® Platform in Over 4,000 Stores; SCO OS Increases Networking Capabilities and Reduces Costs

        • Re:soo... (Score:3, Interesting)

          by Short Circuit ( 52384 )
          That's funny, 'cause before the McDonalds down the street from where I worked turned off the order-confirmation screen a few months ago, it'd been showing a Windows GPF error for several weeks...

          Requires stability. Indeed.

          I told them to power the machine off and back on, and they said they'd tried that. They were still waiting for someone from McD's IT department to come down and fix the box.

        • Re:soo... (Score:5, Funny)

          by asr_man ( 620632 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @07:20AM (#9396541)
          SCO's lovin' it!

        • As McDonalds said to SCO.. (Score:4, Funny)

          by the_rajah ( 749499 ) * on Friday June 11, 2004 @08:46AM (#9397047) Homepage
          "Would you like salt with that wound, Mr. McBride?"

          Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that as an original quote on my part. Saw it on another forum and ROTFLMAO

          "Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain

    • Re:soo... (Score:4, Funny)

      by Deltan ( 217782 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:56AM (#9395785)
      How do you know the meat the serve already isn't penguin?

      • Re:soo... (Score:4, Funny)

        by ComaVN ( 325750 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:04AM (#9395817)
        How do you know it's meat?

        • Re:soo... (Score:5, Funny)

          by perly-king-69 ( 580000 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:06AM (#9396189)
          Because a multi-national corporation is hardly likely to lie to us now, is it. Oh, hold on...

        • Re:soo... (Score:5, Funny)

          by transient ( 232842 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:55AM (#9396300)
          True story:

          I had a teacher in high school who was really, really allergic to beef. When I say "allergic" I'm talking about a trip to the hospital, all kinds of drugs, and he'd still be vomiting for hours. One day, this teacher had a hamburger at McDonald's.

          Nothing happened to him.

          • Re:soo... (Score:5, Insightful)

            by Bohnanza ( 523456 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @06:48AM (#9396422)
            So he ordered a hamburger with full knowledge of his beef allergy? Sure, he did... Anyway, As McD's always points out, with the low prices at which they buy beef, anything else would be more expensive. Think about it - how much would it cost to ship roadkill kangaroos from australia?

            • Re:soo... (Score:3, Funny)

              by bigboard ( 463204 )
              how much would it cost to ship roadkill kangaroos from australia?

              African or European kangaroos?

            • Re:soo... (Score:4, Interesting)

              by WormholeFiend ( 674934 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @09:46AM (#9397627)
              when I was living in my hometown as a poor pre-college student, it was common knowledge that McDonalds hamburgers were a great cure for diarrhea.

              Insta-Constipation!

              Also, it was common practice to go eat a full meal at McD after an night of hard drinking, to avoid being sick.

              We conjectured that they probably put anti-diarrhea and antivomiting drugs in their food so that in case of food poisoning, no one would be the wiser.

    • yes they are (Score:5, Funny)

      by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:58AM (#9395793)
      McDonald's is trying to make new inroads with the wildlife-loving set. After penguin burgers they will be introducing the wildly successful Baby Seal breakfast sausage. But the tastiest addition to their menu will be the Bald Eagle McNuggets. Yum!

    • Serve them to fat clients (Score:5, Funny)

      by danormsby ( 529805 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:32AM (#9396258) Homepage
      Guess they'll be doing a complete install at every McDonald's as they love fat clients.

    • Penguins don't taste good (Score:4, Funny)

      by mangu ( 126918 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @09:07AM (#9397223)
      No bird that eats fish has meat worth eating by humans. There's a short story, by Jack London, IIRC, on a seagull recipe. It starts with a long list of ingredients and preparation steps, and ends with something like "...then throw it all away and get something else to eat. Nothing tastes as bad as seagull".

  • Will they... (Score:4, Funny)

    by flewp ( 458359 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:43AM (#9395706)
    Will they use the money saved to use better meat?

    Or should I say, will they use the money saved to buy ACTUAL meat?

  • Robble Robble (Score:5, Funny)

    by buckhead_buddy ( 186384 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:46AM (#9395723)
    I thought the Hamburglar was already working with SCO.
    Would this be a conflict of interest?

    • Re:Robble Robble (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ValourX ( 677178 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:56AM (#9395781) Homepage
      No, but if history holds true, this makes McDonalds a target for an SCO lawsuit. Both Chrysler and Autozone were former SCO UnixWare customers who switched to GNU/Linux.

      -Jem

      • Re:Robble Robble (Score:5, Informative)

        by kjj ( 32549 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:33AM (#9395936)
        The thing is that they were FORMER customers who no longer had any SCO contracts. In the case of DaimlerChrysler they hadn't been using SCO products for seven years. I believe AutoZone completely phased out SCO operating systems a couple of years ago. In these cases SCO really didn't have much to lose. It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue. A threat of a lawsuit against McDonalds might scare them back to SCO or more likely McDonalds would terminate all future contracts and begin switching over to something other than SCO.

      • Re:Robble Robble (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Zocalo ( 252965 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:25AM (#9396092) Homepage
        this makes McDonalds a target for an SCO lawsuit.

        You'd think, but didn't SuSE get a restraining order or something on SCO last year? I'm wondering if McDonalds has been planning on moving to Linux globally for a while and didn't want to wait until SCO is toast before proceeding. A SCO hostile court system in Germany that has already ruled in SuSE's favour would make the country an ideal place to run the Linux trial while providing some protection from SCO. Very clever of McDonalds...

      • Re:Robble Robble (Score:4, Interesting)

        by ajs318 ( 655362 ) <sd_resp2NO@SPAMearthshod.co.uk> on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:40AM (#9396274)
        SCO were ordered by the German courts not to go harassing Linux users -- unless and until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt, they are doing nothing illegal. That's what "innocent until proven guilty" means -- even if there is no doubt about whether you did something, there can be doubt about whether it was legal.

        If SCO try it on, they will be in contempt of court, and that is a very serious offence.

  • Take this, SCO ! (Score:5, Funny)

    by forged ( 206127 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:47AM (#9395733) Homepage Journal
    Dear Darl,

    Time to update your success story [thescogroup.com] pages again.

    Regards,
    Linus

  • Well now... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by abscondment ( 672321 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:49AM (#9395744) Homepage

    That's really exciting--maybe they'll switch to high quality food now, too.

    But seriously...

    McDonald's Germany deploys SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for DNS, FTP, and proxy services on the Internet.

    I doubt that they'll replace their in-store systems. There's no real need there--most places are running something really ancient that still works. However, I wouldn't mind seing a penguin or two while I'm ordering... and, with all that money they've got, who knows?

  • I wonder. . . (Score:4, Funny)

    by Brissie_lad ( 523538 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:49AM (#9395745) Homepage
    . . . if Darl is dreaming of a McLicense with Coke®?

  • Not much behind this really... (Score:5, Informative)

    by coupland ( 160334 ) * <<moc.liamtoh> <ta> <esahcd>> on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:50AM (#9395749) Journal

    From the press release:

    McDonald's Germany deploys SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for DNS, FTP, and proxy services on the Internet.

    I count three servers there, and "FTP" hardly strikes me as a core service for a fast-food company. This is your typical press-release, intended to produce hype but without a lot behind it. It strikes me as grandstanding by Novell since everyone knows McDonalds uses SCO Unix for many of their POS terminals and someone who reads this headline quickly may think they're ripping out Unix and putting in Linux. Sorry, only three boxes at play here.

    And no, I'm not defending SCO, I'm just saying this press release doesn't mean much.

  • I'm conflicted.... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:50AM (#9395752)
    I'm conflicted. Part of me wants to jear, because I'm told McD is evil and I should hate it without question. And part of me wants to chear, since I'm told to support leenux without question. My knees don't know which way to jerk!

  • Poor SCO (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Tailhook ( 98486 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:51AM (#9395754)
    SCO has, for some time, told anyone who will listen that McDonalds cash registers run SCO Unix. Micky-dees is one of their largest customers.

    Correction: WAS one of their largest customers!

    When it rains it pours, eh?

    • Re:Poor SCO (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Mycroft_VIII ( 572950 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:02AM (#9395806) Journal
      Unfortunately Pizza Hut's systems also run sco.
      Might explain why they have kept cutting back on the number of people they keep on staff in thier stores to the point where if the local hut isn't pulling down quite a few bucks you can count on slow service because they just don't have the manpower to keep up.
      Just DON'T take it out on the delivery driver by not tipping or worse, tipping very poorly. I guarantee he's doing his level best to deliver as many as possible in as little time as possible. He makes his money on those tips, not the paycheck and thus the more deliveries he makes the more $$ he makes.
      Still If you want to hurt sco a bit and get better service just don't order pizza hut, but tell them why. (say "stop using sco and hire enough people to do the job")

      Mycroft

  • Bad for MacDonalds (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:54AM (#9395766)
    Without the power of Windows they'll be bankrupt within months. I know that because I have a certificate.

  • sales grow marketshare (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @02:56AM (#9395784) Homepage Journal
    Novell is back - they convinced thousands of businesses to network in the 1980s and 1990s. And now they're selling Linux and support to more businesses. Which will need Linux software, and pay to get it. Either in cash, to developers, or in GPL code they revise and publish. The economic network effect will see Linux value increase exponentially as more nodes in the value net grow yet more nodes, passing value back and forth among the network - all paved with Linux. I haven't been this happy about Utah and Germany swinging together since the last Olympic skiing broadcasts.

  • Another v.bad joke... (Score:5, Funny)

    by CdBee ( 742846 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:00AM (#9395796)
    ..Thought Linux didn't have driver support for their chips...

  • Unix vs Windows (Score:5, Interesting)

    by humankind ( 704050 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:03AM (#9395811) Journal
    It's interesting that this has come about because I had a long discussion with a friend today who was ruminating over whether to pursue a career in IS related to Unix or Microsoft.

    A cursory glance of the job opportunities seemed to indicate to him that getting MCSE certification was a wiser move than going into the Unix arena. He asked me, "If unix is so much better, why are there more Microsoft-related jobs?" And is Unix the future or is this just a fad?

    I couldn't help but think that in my mind, Microsoft-based corporate IT setups are often more political than practical. Yes, you'll find more jobs with MCSE but it's not because there are necessarily more opportunities. It's because Microsoft-based tech people burn out more quickly, and often the companies they work for make politically-oriented tech decisions over what is practical and economical. It's almost like a litmus test for good corporate management these days. If a big company is using Unix, that's a sign they give their IT department substantive authority to pick the best tools for the job.

    It's nice to know more recognized companies are obviously asking the tech people what are the best tools available to accomplish the objective.

    So Microsoft or Unix? He continued to ask me.

    After some thought my resonse was, "If you want job security and choices, MCSE will give you that, but don't expect to ever get to a point where you have things under control. That's something Unix people encounter a lot more often. But one look at the stats, such as the fact that Microsoft has only 21% of the Internet web server market and shows no sign of de-throning Apache, reveals that Unix is anything but a fad. Why less Unix-based jobs? Probably because Unix admins are a happier lot and turnover in their area is nowhere near the massive burnout rate of MCSEs."

    So Micky-Ds in Germany is going Unix? This is less a sign of the corporation legitimizing Unix as it is likely that a number of key executives in that region have recognized that it might be a smart move to ask the IT people what are the best tools for the job.

    • Re:Unix vs Windows (Score:5, Insightful)

      by dduck ( 10970 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:50AM (#9395981) Homepage
      The answer is simple: Unix-related jobs are on the increase. Go with the growing market, rather than the mature one where competition is likely to be higher, and pay + security therefore lower.

    • So Micky-Ds in Germany is going Unix? This is less a sign of the corporation legitimizing Unix as it is likely that a number of key executives in that region have recognized that it might be a smart move to ask the IT people what are the best tools for the job.

      Erm, the article doesnt say that McD's in Germany is not swtiching to unix. Considering they are a SCO customer, thatey have been using unix for a while now, and may already be using it in backend systems. The article states that they are moving to

    • Re:Unix vs Windows (Score:3, Interesting)

      by m00nun1t ( 588082 )
      "It's because Microsoft-based tech people burn out more quickly, and often the companies they work for make politically-oriented tech decisions over what is practical and economical."

      Based on what? You're just making this up, right? And you get +5 for this....

  • Reminds me of (Score:5, Funny)

    by mqRakkis ( 521550 ) <rnurminen&gmail,com> on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:09AM (#9395834) Homepage
    Reminds me of this bit in drivers/net/sunhme.c:
    static void happy_meal_tcvr_write(struct happy_meal *hp,
    unsigned long tregs, int reg,
    unsigned short value)
    {
    int tries = TCVR_WRITE_TRIES;

    ASD(("happy_meal_tcvr_write: reg=0x%02x value=%04x\n", reg, value));

    /* Welcome to Sun Microsystems, can I take your order please? */
    if (!(hp->happy_flags & HFLAG_FENABLE))
    return happy_meal_bb_write(hp, tregs, reg, value);

    /* Would you like fries with that? */
    hme_write32(hp, tregs + TCVR_FRAME,
    (FRAME_WRITE | (hp->paddr << 23) |
    ((reg & 0xff) << 18) | (value & 0xffff)));
    while (!(hme_read32(hp, tregs + TCVR_FRAME) & 0x10000) && --tries)
    udelay(20);

    /* Anything else? */
    if (!tries)
    printk(KERN_ERR "happy meal: Aieee, transceiver MIF write bolixed\n");

    /* Fifty-two cents is your change, have a nice day. */
    }

    • Re:Reminds me of (Score:3, Informative)

      by phrasebook ( 740834 )
      Reminds me how ugly C code is. *shudder*

    • Re:Reminds me of (Score:3, Informative)

      by larien ( 5608 )
      For those that are unaware, Sun's HME interface is known as "Happy Meal Ethernet".

    • Re:Reminds me of (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ColaMan ( 37550 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:56AM (#9396157) Journal
      Windows: "The application encountered a problem and has to close. We apologise for the incovenience."

      Linux : "happy meal: Aieee, transceiver MIF write bolixed"

      Now come on, admit it. You'd use windows more if it gave out error messages like that. Even a simple "Ooops. We fucked up that last write operation rather badly. Sorry". Phrases like that just seem to convey a bit more feeling and sincerity than the dry corporate psuedo-regret that windows serves out.

      • Re:Reminds me of (Score:5, Interesting)

        by wfberg ( 24378 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:11AM (#9396199)
        Windows: "The application encountered a problem and has to close. We apologise for the incovenience."

        Linux : "happy meal: Aieee, transceiver MIF write bolixed"

        Now come on, admit it. You'd use windows more if it gave out error messages like that. Even a simple "Ooops. We fucked up that last write operation rather badly. Sorry". Phrases like that just seem to convey a bit more feeling and sincerity than the dry corporate psuedo-regret that windows serves out.

        Even better is that those "unprofessional" linux errormessages are pretty creative, and therefore pretty much unique to whatever problem you might be experiencing..

        "The application has encountered a problem" is as unspecific as you can get. What problem? Perhaps suppressed sexual anxiety relating to a childhood obsession with its mother, no?

        At least the linux error messages are googlable..

  • So torn... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Walkiry ( 698192 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:16AM (#9395870) Homepage
    The food is absolute shit, but they use Linux...

    Argh...

  • kfc (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:24AM (#9395897)
    I worked at kfc until I quit a few weeks ago. It's one of the newer stores in this area.
    The touch-screen registers we use there all run dos (with some kind of extensions of some sort)

    The system is very unreliable, although I'm not sure whether it's the programmers fault or the managers of the store (1D10T errors).

    We often lost orders between drivethrough windows, or the screen telling us what to pack would stop displaying any new orders, and we would have to get the person at the first window to yell the orders at us. Technology is wonderful.

  • A much more interesting McDonald's related article (Score:5, Informative)

    by Granos ( 746051 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:30AM (#9395923)
    There is actually a much more interesting press release [novell.com] on the Novell website about NetWare and McDonald's Brazil. It is unclear whether or not Germany was running SCO Unix on the servers before the switch to Linux, but SCO is apparently not a worldwide McDonald's affiliate, as McDonald's Brazil has been running NetWare for 15 years. This article also gives much more information about the IT infrastructure of McDonald's, since the slashdot article just made me think "How many DNS, FTP, and Proxy servers can McDonald's Germany possibly have?". McDonald's Brazil, which is about the same size as McDonald's Germany, has 6 giant servers in different locations accross the country, and each one has a huge database for all of the information of each restaurant, plus the administrative information. You have to remember that a lot of the IT related stuff is for McDonald's huge corperate staff, not the people taking your order. The other interesting thing is that McDonald's is completely centralized, so if a server failure occurs, and the in-store machines can't connect with a central database, they apparently can't take orders or give receipts out at the actual restaurants.

  • Two Completely Unrelated Headlines (Score:5, Funny)

    by gowen ( 141411 ) <gwowen@gmail.com> on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:37AM (#9395949) Homepage Journal
    McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux

    and

    Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower? [slashdot.org]

  • I know /. is e geek place (Score:3, Funny)

    by SpaghettiPattern ( 609814 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:40AM (#9395956)
    But stop calling McDonalds's quick & dirty energy salons "restaurants".

    It's like saying "the MS-DOS operating system". Clueless people like it that way and all others.... Oh forget it

  • Imagine a beowulf cluster of.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by PsiPsiStar ( 95676 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:47AM (#9395975)
    no, wait. I guess that's called a franchise.

  • In the other news... (Score:5, Funny)

    by jabapi ( 548478 ) <jaba @ m b n e t . fi> on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:49AM (#9395979) Homepage
    ... McDonald's announced their latest delicious product, McBride Meal.

  • McDonalds - good today? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by caluml ( 551744 ) <slashdot@spamgoe ... g ['ere' in gap]> on Friday June 11, 2004 @03:51AM (#9395983) Homepage
    Funny how McDonalds is the epitomy of bad fattening food, environmentally unsound, and a nasty big corporation, but when they're switching to Linux they're OK.

    Why do people keep buying their food anyway? I have to assume that people forget how bad it us until a nice shiny advert comes along and convinces them how good it is. Those nice soggy floppy burgers. Hmm.

    • Re:McDonalds - good today? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by 10Ghz ( 453478 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:39AM (#9396126)
      Funny how McDonalds is the epitomy of bad fattening food, environmentally unsound, and a nasty big corporation, but when they're switching to Linux they're OK.


      As far as their OS of choice is concerned: yes, they are OK. The food is still bad and they are a nasty big corporation. But what does that have to do with the subject at hand? We are not talking about the ethics or the quality of the food. we are talking about their choice of OS.
    • I have a friend who just about lives on Macca's. When he isn't eating or working there, he's thinking about it or driving twenty minutes to the nearest 24-hour McDonalds. However, he isn't fat. He's much fitter and healthier than I am. Why? He exercises. I don't know the full details but I know he competes in both both basketball and netball on Mondays during the season. McDonalds is accused of making people fat, but they don't. The customers' lifestyles make them fat. Eat what you need to, do the exercise
    • Why do people keep buying their food anyway?

      Habit and convenience.

      People go there because they've been going since they were children. There's a reason that the bulk of McD's advertising is directed at kids. Beyond that, McD's is everywhere--in the town of 20,000 where I live, we have four of them. If you don't want to cook, there's ALWAYS one on the way home.

      Personally, I avoid them and have been doing so for a couple of years. If I want to eat unhealthy (heh, and I DO eat unhealthy anyway) I'd muc

  • It's so confusing... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by bcmm ( 768152 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:22AM (#9396082)
    I'm all confused now...
    MacDonald's is meant to be evil...

  • Now that McDonald's is going open source (Score:4, Funny)

    by Gary Destruction ( 683101 ) * on Friday June 11, 2004 @04:44AM (#9396139) Journal
    Will we finally find out what the secret recipe for Big Mac sauce is?
    • This isn't funny at all for a gastro geek.

      With a buddy of mine I once tried imitating McDonald's sauce and we actually got pretty near to the McDonald taste.

      I noticed that the taste of the fresh herbs (basil was an important ingredient) we used wore after a while. That means, McDonald's way of stabilizing the taste is very likely well studied and they deserve credit for that.

      We went on and we "discovered" that almost any mayonnaise based sauce with fresh herbs can be brought to a decent taste. If you

  • No big deal (Score:5, Insightful)

    by arvindn ( 542080 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:01AM (#9396172) Homepage Journal
    Linux deployments on the server stopped being news years ago. If we see some movement on enterprise desktops, that'd be worthy of the /. frontpage.

  • Norwegian Postal Service too (Score:4, Informative)

    by Dionysus ( 12737 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:10AM (#9396195) Homepage
    Seems like lots of European companies are moving over. Norwegian Postal Service is moving to Linux from Windows [www.digi.no] on the desktop.

  • Educational services. (Score:5, Funny)

    by mshiltonj ( 220311 ) <mshiltonj AT gmail DOT com> on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:19AM (#9396223) Homepage Journal
    McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.

    This is why I like slashdot. It's so educational.

  • I always thought (Score:3, Funny)

    by Vitus Wagner ( 5911 ) <vitus@wagner.pp.ru> on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:31AM (#9396255) Homepage Journal
    I always thought that McDonalds is much like Microsoft - produces completely unedible product, but is obvois market leader and is known to everone.

  • Micros (not Microsoft) (Score:4, Interesting)

    by gatkinso ( 15975 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:47AM (#9396291)
    Don't kwow about Europe, but MacD's USA is a big customer of Micros - they make POS terminals and the "backstore/office" hardware to support it.

    I interviewed there once - they seemed to have SCO Unix and NT based systems.... atleast in the dept that I interviewed in.

  • Now the lawsuits (Score:3, Funny)

    by kpogoda ( 580939 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @05:56AM (#9396301)
    I guess SCO will have to sue them now.

  • Soon no-one will be able to deny... (Score:3, Funny)

    by resprung ( 410576 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @06:11AM (#9396338) Homepage
    ...that Linux is getting bloated

  • Their supplier? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Jugalator ( 259273 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @06:39AM (#9396398) Journal
    ... and I suppose freshmeat.net will supply them with the meat?

  • Does this mean... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Handover Slashdot ( 255651 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @07:07AM (#9396477)
    That Suse will now look fresh and tasty on the box, but the actual product you get will be sort of stale, brown and wilted?

    I seem to recall Michael Douglas going ballistic over this in a movie once...

  • Realistically, folks.. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rkhalloran ( 136467 ) on Friday June 11, 2004 @10:31AM (#9398159) Homepage
    McD's could give a rat's rump about the SCO case as such, but their IT department has to see The Writing on The Wall: that the vendor for the back-end software in their thousands of franchises is crashing. There's already an injunction in place in Germany against SCO making claims against Linux, and using SuSE gives it a 'local vendor' bonus there, so it's an easy choice for a proving ground.

    If this works, with the Novell deal now giving them a US support base, they have a potential migration path out of a failing vendor. Whether they wait for SCO to crater or just move ahead and dare SCO to bring suit on their largest customer remains to be seen.

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