Subj : Re: Community
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 01:56:51

On 05 Oct 2022 at 12:21a, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo>  te>  bo> I've worked for produces of medicinal products, so a different i
 bo>  te>  bo> I would imagine that software developers may be more likely to u
 bo>  te>  bo> than say, Pfizer.  I did see Linux once on an Internet Kiosk com
 bo>  te>  bo> a backpackers in Germany, and have maybe seen it once or twice
 bo>  te>  bo> elsewhere, but quite rare.
 bo>  te> 
 bo>  te> I promise you Pfizer is running Linux all over the place.
 bo>  te> 
 bo> 
 bo> Server or desktop?  Server I believe.  Didn't see desktops with it, but
 bo> that was in Australia.

Server-side, almost certainly, but also for supercomputing.  Pharma
is a consumer of compute-cycles, and I doubt they're renting capacity
from the national labs or other major public supercomputing sites.

For desktop use, I imagine it depends on job function.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.