Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores has signed a multimillion-dollar deal to use 9,700 IBM Linux PCs to run operations in its paint retail stores, the companies will announce Thursday.

Sherwin-Williams will use the PCs in more than 2,500 stores for running each store's centralized cash register software, reading e-mail and browsing the company's intranet, and for securely recording customers' choices in custom paint tints.

The Linux systems will replace a version of Unix from the Santa Cruz Operation, a company that Linux seller Caldera International acquired in 2001. The SCO products have been popular in "replicated sites," the nearly identical retail outlets for companies such as Pizza Hut or Blockbuster Video that dot minimalls, downtowns and shopping centers.

Source: Tech News - CNet.Com

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