IP: German Bundestag - Linux or Microsoft

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: JToobe <jtoobe () compuserve com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:40:20 +0000
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: German Bundestag - Linux or Microsoft

Dave,

this is quite interesting if you have the German mentality in mind.

According to a newsticker from the German news magazine "heute" and
duplicated in 



the German Bundestag is going for Linux Server with Windows XP
clients. 

Taken from 
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/data/jk-20.02.02-003/

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Administration of the German Parliament Confirms Maturity of Linux

In parallel to its external migration study, the administration of
the "Bundestag", Germany's federal parliament, has performed tests
of its own in cooperation with Microsoft on the one hand and IBM and
SuSE on the other, prior to a forthcoming switch to a new operating
system. heise online has managed to obtain the results of the study:
These are bound to enliven the already heated debate about the
future IT landscape that will envelop Germany's members of
parliament.

According to the test results the two configurations examined --
Windows 2000 as server in conjunction with Windows XP as client
operating system and SuSE 7.2/7.3 respectively -- display an
"adequate degree of stability". The 68-page report notes that the
results of the tests of the required functions of both variant
configurations were "positive overall". Consequently both ranges of
products could “be implemented given enough lead time, as well as
adequate levels of personnel, materiel and funds".


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