[SC.LUG] [Fwd: [OSC-Members] Impressive Free Software case study]

[Richard Smedley]

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From: Gerry Gavigan 
To: osc-members at opensourceconsortium.org
Subject: [OSC-Members] Impressive Free Software case study
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:45:00 +0100

http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39419829,00.htm

Some great quotes...

"Oyster also faced another problem: the site had to be upgraded to meet the 
payment card industry's PCI DSS requirements for security, which had emerged 
since the scheme began"

("Linux is secure" - official)

"Deloitte kept away from lock-in: "We used open standards, not a proprietary 
flavour of them; for instance SQL, but not the Oracle flavour of it,"

"The new site went live in 2007, and immediately cut the regular charges for 
licensing and hosting by 80 percent, by allowing Tfl to shop around for the 
best hosting deal. This saving alone will cover the cost of the Deloitte 
project in a year, said Robinson, even apart from benefits such as PCI 
compliance and flexibility. The site now works faster and performs better and 
allows new applications and code to be added with no downtime."

And the tube runs just past Parliament and the Treasury. Who knows: it might 
inspire the rest of them to save as much money