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November 15, 2001 By Lauren Gibbons Paul Timing is everything--a fact not lost on the founders of Viata Inc. A Honolulu-based application service provider to the online travel industry, Viata was a newborn in March 2000--hardly an auspicious time to begin an e-business. "Our company was formed just about the time it all dried up," says Viata's Jay Abel ruefully. When then-CTO Abel was designing the company's technical architecture, conserving company funds was a principal concern. Viata was in the process of hiring a staff of 60, and software-licensing fees to deploy Windows and Office to the whole group would easily run as high as $50,000--a cost that Abel couldn't justify. The need to operate on a shoestring budget led to his controversial decision to use Linux not only on the company's servers, but also on its desktop PCs. The move was unusual because few companies had made a wholesale move to Linux at the time, and not many people understood the operating system's inner workings. Not to put too fine a point on it, Abel's co-workers thought he was crazy. "Even I told him he was making a big mistake," says Deven Phillips, security officer and network analyst for Viata, who was then an outside technical consultant to the firm. Though Phillips had some experience with Linux, "I thought it was a little more difficult than the average user could handle. It wasn't as polished or friendly as modern OSes are." |
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