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November 17, 2008

Slumberland rests easy after move away from proprietary Unix

Slumberland rests easy after move away from proprietary Unix
By Tina Gasperson, Linux.com, November 17, 2008

In 2005, when Slumberland faced end-of-lifecycle replacements of its proprietary Unix platform, its warehouse management system (WMS) vendor suggested a move to Red Hat Linux and commodity x86 servers. Seth Mitchell, the infrastructure team manager at the large furniture retailer, gladly agreed. Upper management wasn't quite as quick to jump on the open source bandwagon, but once the cost savings started rolling in, everyone agreed that it was a profitable decision.

Slumberland is a multi-store furniture retailer in the Midwest United States, based in Minnesota. When the Sealy mattress distributor's four-way RISC server was approaching the end of its lifecycle, Mitchell assumed that WMS vendor RedPrairie would replace it with something identical.
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