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When Sesame Workshop bought into web systems based on free software, it was not ideological -- it was financial. The ongoing costs of licensing and maintenance for StoryServer, Oracle, and their Sun hardware was too much to bear. With the new systems, using PHP, PostgreSQL and Apache, and running on RedHat Linux, sesamestreet.com and other holdings can now double their traffic, and for less cost. I\'d call that a win.

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