However, I am looking at this from the publicity point of view and would love to see a SIMILAR list of organisations using ANY form of linux.

Because I am looking at this from a broader Linux point of view, I would like to see no organisations with less that either 50 servers, or 1,000 PCs running Linux on this secondary list.

I am a total Ubuntu fan and user. However I am also a journalist and an ex MARKETING man. I know that something like this that brings people to Linux will benefit Ubuntu. Just look at all the news out there, so much of it is Ubuntu orientated. And now Mark Shuttleworth has been made “IT Community Hero of the Year” at the prestigious CNET awards ceremony at the Park Lane Hilton.

Anyone out there with the time to do this – remember, 1,000 PCs or more. Citroen is, as we type, moving 250 servers and 20,000 PCs over to SuSE. The French Gendarmes are moving up to 70,000 PCs over to Ubuntu. And I have heard that the Spanish Government are installing Ubuntu in all their school computers – this could be up to half a million!

Ampers

Customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux are well-known. But Ubuntu deployment stories have yet to hit the mainstream press, and our goal with the Works With U 1000 is to zero in on Ubuntu-specific deployments because so many people think Ubuntu is simply a personal OS — rather than a corporate or business OS.

I’m not suggesting that Ubuntu is “better” than Red Hat or Novell. But we are striving to identify exactly how, where and why businesses and organizations are running Ubuntu on desktops, servers and mobile systems.