Northwest Airlines uses Linux

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh@bitstream.net>]

It looks like Northwest is using Linux in it's new flight simulator control 
systems.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990524A85A

"The Minneapolis company auditioned several vendors last year. Systems 
based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT and IBM's AIX Unix were proposed, but 
Aguglia and colleague Duane Sebens of Northwest's Hardware Engineering unit 
vouched for Linux as a choice capable of competing with more mainstream 
commercial operating systems."

I wonder if we could get one of these guys to come give a talk at one of 
our meetings.  I took a C++ class once from one of the lead software 
engineers at Northwest - I think I still have his email address around 
somewhere.

-Brady