On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 11:26:55 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:40:37AM +1100, Donna Benjamin wrote: >> Hey does any one know if Linux is being used in the biotech field - >> specifically in research around curing/preventing/treating Malaria? > > DDT [1] is highly effective in preventing Malaria, It's also a particularly strong pollutant. > and one of the manufacturers (Bayer AG) is a big user of Linux[2]. Bayer AG has produced a number of dubious products in the course of time. One of their trade marks is "Heroin". See http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/opi004.htm or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin . > In fact, at a guess, chemical and pharmaceutical companies generally > would be big users of linux for supercomputing. Yes, this is a valid assumption. I recently had a job offer from such a company (in New York) for kernel development work, and I received another today from what might be the same company; they didn't specify the exact purpose of the development. If anybody is interested and you have kernel development skills, please contact me privately. Greg -- Greg Lehey, Senior Software Engineer MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com/ Echunga, South Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:4484@sip.mysql.com, sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net Are you MySQL certified? http://www.mysql.com/certification/
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