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Page 2 of 3 Continued: At least 80,000 PCs will be concerned by the migration before the end of the year. In a first step, 35,000 PCs will be equipped by OpenOffice.org before the summer. OpenOffice will be used, as Microsoft Office, for the rapports and statements, but will offer more services than Word and Excel. The National Gendarmerie has announced that the migration, the technical support and the personnel training will be managed without any external help. It is expected to save 2 million euro by year through this migration. NZX - the New Zealand stock exchange has become the first major New Zealand company to adopt the Oracle 10g database running on Red Hat Linux. Yahoo, Inc. has started moving onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It already had many servers running Linux, but now it has started moving its homegrown infrastructure applications from it's custom operating system to RHEL 4. Many of the company's large databases already run on Linux, and the number is expected to double within the next twelve months. The world's largest Linux migration, the German National Railway's is moving smoothly. It has successfully moved all of its 55,000 Lotus Notes users onto the open-source operating system. The company has already shifted its vital train time-tabling system from HP Non-Stop to Linux. Next, it will move various SAP systems, including sales support, from UNIX to Linux. And by the end of the year, all remaining critical systems--including databases, application servers, Web servers, mail servers, and network infrastructure--will be running on Linux. The vast project, which dwarfs the frequently quoted migration of the Munich Council to Linux, was agreed upon last year; and the railway had moved half of its 300 or so servers by November 2004. The Czech post decided to review its operating system in favor of a non-proprietary environment. Thanks to its reliability and also to its customization capabilities, SUSE LINUX technology was selected. |
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