[dundee] Dundee City Council goes Linux!

[Mark Harrigan]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:34:10AM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:

> 
> Perhaps... but then again, they could be spending a lot more than that
> [1] with their current setup....
> 
> 
> [1] Either with the M$ TAX or if they are on some other proprietary
> system, then the maintenance costs of those *systems* won't come
> cheap... hmm...e.g, why is everyone switching from Solaris/SPARC to
> Linux/x86....

It's definitely not an x86 box.

Yeah and you still will, Linux doesn't run on the bare metal, it needs
z/VM in there too. And I suspect that the applications running on it
will still be rather proprietary too. The cost saving probably comes from
increased reliability and the consolidation of the servers into a
single system that won't need replaced or maintained as much, plus why
have a team of well paid computer specialists when it only takes one
or two with that system?

... /me ponders

and we're sure this is a positive move? 

You know nerds not having jobs... 

Mark

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