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IP: German Bundestag - Linux or Microsoft
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:40:26 -0500
------ Forwarded Message 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/ ______ 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". ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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