:Enterprise Linux Today: Toyota to Save 3 Million A Year with the Help of Linux
Enterprise Linux Today: Toyota to Save 3 Million A Year with the Help of Linux Oct 24, 2000, 08 :57 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (10218 reads) (Other stories by David Brauer)
"According to customer surveys, Toyota perennially produces some of the world's most
reliable cars. When the auto giant decided to create a comprehensive network to
communicate with its 1,200 American car dealers, it wanted the same reliability in its
operating system -- and chose Linux."
"This summer, Toyota Motor Sales USA unveiled a plan this summer to provide Toyota and Lexis dealers with what
the company calls a first-in-the-industry "ground-up web-based dealer/factory communication system" running Red
Hat Linux 6.2 on Dell PowerApp.Web 100 appliance servers. The system, called Dealer Daily, "will be the means for
Toyota to communicate with dealers on a wide range of areas, such as sales reporting, inventory management,
parts ordering, and technical info," says Mike Michels, a Toyota Motor spokesperson...."
"Dealer Daily will quickly become Toyota's vital electronic link, he adds, allowing dealers to use a browser-like system.
"It is a true business-to-business exchange portal," says Inaba. "It will allow us to be securely connected with our
dealers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and will increase dealer productivity in over 30 different
data-sharing interfaces, such as parts ordering, warranties, sales transactions and even vehicle repairs."
