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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. normal business procedure by 4im · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Telstra simply evaluate the alternatives. That's normal business procedure. OK, it's nice they consider Linux instead of just ignoring it, but that doesn't (yet) mean that they'll actually select it.

    You can be sure that MS will throw in their full marketing weight on such a business...

    Oh well, we can hope...

  2. Telstra and MS go back a ways. by child_of_mercy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Telstra have been MS junkies a long way back, Bill G made a point of wowing the Australian Government with presentations to Cabinet in the early days of the commercial net (1996/7 - early for MS) and with that push went the Govt owned corporates, of which Telstra is one.

    Telstra nearly lost their commercial ISP business due to faillings in Win NT's stability in those days.

    They also got extremely upset with MS publishing criticism of their Broadband strategy earlier this year (they'd thought they were buddies)

    At a guess though I'd say Telstra are using this bit of smoke to help their negotiations with MS, negotiations on a number of fronts.

    --
    'There is a Light that never goes out.'
  3. knowing where you going by oliverthered · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is like knowing where you've been.

    The problem with the current Linux desktop is that it's almost very hard to 'know',

    You never know exactly what cut and paste is.(crtl+insert, drag over , crtl+c{things are sure to break!} anything else).

    Or how the printer options are going to come up. {KDE print dialoge, configure lpr dialoge}

    What a right click will do.

    Where the help is (man, info{ahhh the great info},kde help or /usr/share/doc/myapp) ....

    Things are far better than a few years ago..

    Some things that might help would be:-

    Put some UI, design (aesthetic and technical) principals into the LSB
    and have a LSB certification for applications.

    Resolve the GTK,QT issues (should hopefully happen over the next year or two)

    Ask other people if they could kindly implement there GFX toolkits/widgets using QT or GTK.

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.