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UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the gentlemen-smashing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to GNU/Linux. ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local government technology consultants Nineveh."

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  1. Ooooh... by HugoQuixote · · Score: 2, Troll

    This can only be a good thing for suppliers of certain local government based software (SX3, Ocella) - many of their products used to run on UNIX alone, and even now some of them run emulated under W2K.

    The council I work for runs iWorld, an SX3 product - unfortunately our UNIX admin is a bit of a fool and didn't notice when the project suggested running the system emulated. If he'd have been paying attention, we might have got some Linux boxen in!

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  2. Re:And for the Linux pessimists... by SlashdotLemming · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...can anyone tell me when we ever saw a large-scale switch from Linux to Windows NT?

    OK,
    Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham, one year from now ;)

  3. Gee Jizz by CausticWindow · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, let me sum up. A small county in a socialist European country, have contemplated to at some time in the future maybe change to Linux. Wow.

    Why don't you get back to us when a real company in a real (non socialist) country makes a big switch?

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