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Telstra Considers 45,000-Seat Linux Deployment

Posted by timothy on from the or-pretends-to-as-a-bargaining-chip dept.

stressky writes: "Looks like major Aussie telco Telstra are looking at deploying Linux as the new Standard Operating Environment across their 45,000 desktop LAN workstations." An anonymous reader offers evidence that Telstra isn't alone; apparently, many other Australian businesses are considering a similar switch.

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  1. maybe it's due to M$ licensing... by potcrackpot · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article from Australian IT:

    The Australian IT reported on deep scepticism among corporate decision makers about Microsoft's Licensing 6.0, which took effect at the beginning of the month

    OK, sounds reasonable. However, when asked about this, M$ came up with (also from the Australian IT article):

    Microsoft product marketing manager Danny Beck said organisations had accepted the new licensing model and Windows server sales had enjoyed double-digit growth since 1999.

    This doesn't seem to tally. Perhaps he meant the middle finger on each hand?

    1. Re:maybe it's due to M$ licensing... by grahamm · · Score: 2, Funny

      Double digit growth - between 10 and 99 units were sold.

  2. How they are regionalising the linux distro... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    When linux is loading it says

    Giving linux a good kick in the arse ...

    Instead of seeing the word LILO it shows

    XXXX

    Instead of reporting your CPU type and speed in megahertz, you will see

    AMD Athlon with 2000 pounds per square inch of biting pressure

    The desktop randomly says "Crikey. Look at the size of that one!"

    The distro will be released under the GPL, however you must pay heaps of money to a team of rugby league players every week.

  3. one problem - its telstra by Craig+Ringer · · Score: 1, Funny

    As anybody living in Austalia knows, Telstra are scum. They gouge every cent they can, and they're single-handedly responsable for making broadband here almost prohibitively expensive.

    I almost hope they'll decide to use new Windows $3000 (per MB RAM required, min 512MB) so that they'll go broke, the gov't will resume full ownership of the infrastructure, and we get a working telecommunications system again.

    I can dream, can't I?

  4. Games! by echophase · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they will have, what, 1 year of unprecidented employee productivity before all the popular games are ported to Linux.