Jan 30
The French paramilitary police force is switching 70,000 desktops to Linux OS. In what appears to the safe and evolving migration path, it first ditched IE for Firefox, they then used OpenOffice instead of MS Office. Finally, once the users are familiar with the applications, the OS migration is like stepping off of a curb rather than leaping across the Grand Canyon. The reasons for switch are pretty much in line with everyone else.
- Reducing Costs
- Reducing single vendor lock-in
- More control
Jan 29
Ironically, it seems that Microsoft initiated the switchover to the Linux alternative by launching its anti-piracy policy in the Philippines. The government them responded by seeking out alternatives. In a sweeping move 13,000 Fedora Linux and 10,000 Ubuntu Linux computers have have been deployed within Philippine schools in the country replacing old Windows PCs. It was discovered that the old Windows PCs were not being used because nobody knew how to use them
A quote from and independent open source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez who worked on the project.
“People in the government now understand Linux can do so much for so little outlay,” he said. “In a brand new computer 50 percent goes to the operating system and office suite, so how many people can afford that?”
This should be an interesting case to follow, to discover if Linux can be a useful learning tool in the education system.
Jan 11
To meet to the demands of phenomenal growth of mobile phone services Virgin Mobile has adopted to the (LAMP) Linux, Apache,Mysql,PHP stack to modernize their infrastructure. The internally developed solutions are used to process thousands of queries each second. Each text message can generate over a hundred queries and contain more than 500GB of data.
A quote from Joe Morrissey of MYSQL.
“MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition and MySQL Enterprise are now at the heart of the solutions implemented by the leading industry players. We are delighted about this additional endorsement by Virgin Mobile.”
