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Fashionistas Meet Penguinista

Fashion and Linux--it's not a familiar combination. You get a mental picture of an open source hacker in an extra large T-shirt and long fuzzy beard on a runway on Seventh Avenue. It's as unlikely as the fashion industry, which is slow, technologically speaking, moving away from tried and true methods of doing business. But Ed Foy of Brick, NJ, has made it his business to break all the rules. He's helping celebrities sell clothes--a lot of clothes--using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl.