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Kyoto Sangyo University
Turbolinux Workstation 6.0
Challenge: When Japan's prestigious Kyoto Sangyo University had plans for a state-of-the-art computer lab, most eyes turned toward the same commercial UNIX solution the university had used in the past. The trouble was, the new lab would span six floors and have 600 terminals. At 4.5 million yen (U.S.$40,500) per machine, the UNIX implementation would cost a staggering 2.7 billion yen (U.S.$24.3 million)!
Solution: Nobuo Tsubouchi, the lab's systems administrator, recommended installing Turbolinux on IBM Netfinity 3000 servers. The university was delighted to hear that the Turbolinux installation would be more than 20 times less expensive than its UNIX counterpart, while the die-hard UNIX proponents in Tsubouchi's department were impressed by its performance.
In a university-sponsored "ByteBenchmark" test, a single Linux machine with a 333-MHz Pentium II processor "far outperformed" a UNIX machine with two 350-MHz RISC processors. The Turbolinux project, Japan's largest implementation of Linux to date and IBM's largest Linux server installation in the world, also offered the flexibility needed to accommodate dual-boot systems running Turbolinux and Windows NT.
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Sanyo
Turbolinux Workstation
Sanyo says Turbolinux's strong support gives medical division clean bill of health
Challenge: Sanyo, a $17 billion consumer electronics manufacturer, wanted to find a better value platform to host its medical systems software and hardware solution. It historically had built its medical workstation systems around a PA-RISC architecture platform.
Solution: After an extensive evaluation period, Sanyo selected Turbolinux running on Intel architecture workstations as the new platform for its Newve medical workstation products. It began shipping the first units in late 1999 in what analysts described as the largest-ever enterprise Linux deployment, more than 20,000 units over four years. Sanyo and Turbolinux engineers worked together to port the software application from UNIX to Linux. The Sanyo Newve systems, comprised of a workstation, application software, Turbolinux Workstation OS, a monitor and printer, are priced at around $20,000, a substantial savings over the previous UNIX-based systems. Hospitals and medical clinics use the systems to keep track of patient medical records.
"Sanyo Electronics chose Turbolinux because of its strong Linux development team in Japan," said Hideo Hayashi, director of Sanyo's Medicom Business Department. "And Turbolinux has the expertise to provide us the solid support that we require"
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