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New South Wales Traffic Authority Switches to Macs

Posted by pudge on from the whole-lotta-macs dept.

MacGyver writes ""In what may well be Apple Computer's largest coup in the Australian enterprise space, the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will deploy 1200 G4 iMacs across 140 registry offices." This isn't just a Mac story: the RTA statement noted, "The Apple rollout is a continuation of RTA usage of open standards-based software and systems. The further adoption of open source is being undertaken to provide more choice of vendors and to guarantee RTA systems are providing value for money."

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  1. Good job Apple... by superangrybrit · · Score: 2, Funny

    People deserve better. Companies too. ;)

  2. What about the roads? by ttys00 · · Score: 1, Funny

    They could have used the money to fix 1200 potholes in Sydney roads, you can swim in some of them when it rains!

    1. Re:What about the roads? by ztwilight · · Score: 3, Funny
      They could have used the money to fix 1200 potholes in Sydney roads, you can swim in some of them when it rains!

      Yeah, but now you can have Macs and go swimming too! Yahoo!

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  3. Re:Bah! Up the prices go again... by TheOneWhoIsMany · · Score: 1, Funny

    not to mention to cost of licences! i better go for my green P soon. i can see them going form cositng me a total of $95 to $150 with the implemtaion of this new mac policy

  4. Re:Ummm... by PhyreFox · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Microsoft is the only company you are allowed to bash in here."

    Forgotten about SCO already?

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  5. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool!

    That means I get to listen to iTunes next time I go to fail my license exam.

  6. Re:funny. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Apple is dying" is dying!

  7. Re:Providing more vendor options? by daquake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of when at a tech meeting I stated I was an Apple Certified Technician, I was asked what the hell I do, help people color coordinate their mac purchases?

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  8. MOD THIS UP by Evil+Pete · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing like inside information to set all the wild theorising in slashdot to rest. Oh yeah. Slashdot. Sorry, continue the wild speculations!

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