 NEWS
German city drops
Windows for Linux
By John Blau
December 17, 2002 9:11 am PT
SCHWÄBISCH HALL, A community of 36,000 in southern Germany, plans to build its entire IT infrastructure on the open source Linux
operating system, replacing
Windows from Microsoft Corp.
The local government has decided to deploy Linux software supplied by SuSE Linux on
servers from IBM and up to 400 PCs, SuSE Linux said Tuesday in a statement. The government is targeting an initial cost savings of more than $102,300, according to the statement.
In addition to cost savings, the city government expects Linux-based IT infrastructure to provide greater
security and interoperability with other systems, the city's mayor, Hermann-Josef Pelgrim, said in the statement.
Initially, the project will include the migration from
Windows and Microsoft Office to the SuSE Linux Enterprise Client and OpenOffice.org for 120 client PCs, a number that is expected to rise to 400 client PCs in the final stage, said SuSE Linux in Nuremberg, Germany.
On the
server side, SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server software will be deployed on IBM's eServer xSeries
servers, the company said.
Microsoft could not be immediately reached for comment.
John Blau is a correspondent in Dusseldorf, Germany, for the IDGNS, an InfoWorld affiliate.
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