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4.27.2006

Switch to...RH Enterprise?

McRorieThe headline from Slashdot - The FAA Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Linux. From RedHat's press release:

Red Hat has announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The FAA executed a major systems migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one-third of the original scheduled time and with 30 percent more operational efficiency than the previous system."

Hmm, what horrid (and expensive) system did they migrate from? Actually, it's not clear, but most speculate that it was from a combination of Unix and Windows machines. And why would anybody want to do that?

The recent shutdown of LAX due to an FAA radio outage was apparently caused by a Windows 2000 integration flaw, possibility related to an old Windows 95 bug.

Talk about a Blue Screen of Death.

Oh, and Man of the Year 2004 McRorie still rocks.
posted by brian at 1:49 PM | Permalink

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