The Chronicle Herald, the biggest independently owned newspaper in Canada, recently decided to enhance their operations. IMP Solutions provided them with IBM Bladecenter, five dual-processor blades running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The BladeCenter runs the newspapers email, web and file servers as well as their Oracle Financials software and database. These applications run much faster on the new BladeCenter than on the previous server, Sun Enterprise 3000. According to Paul Williams, Director of Information Technology at The Chronicle Herald, "They scream". The BladeCenter will provide outstanding cost savings in maintenance, end the reliance on paper storage, and reduce the expense of extra disk storage.

In the future, The Chronicle Herald is planning to introduce the Oracle Application Server 10g providing automatic resource sharing with the BladeCenter. IBM BladeCenter and Linux is allowing the newspaper to continue to evolve after 180 years in operation, with a flexible and reliable technology solution.