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Australian Government Agency Moves Towards Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the change-is-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting that Centrelink, the Australian government agency responsible for distributing social security payments, is investigating Novell's Open Enterprise Server as a method of consolidating huge chunks of its network. Centrelink's national manager is quoted as saying: "We have to look at remote access, virus protection, security. Linux has those capabilities but we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products""

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  1. probably another "get M$ to lower it's price" ploy by arfonrg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure in the end, M$ will give them big price breaks ad they'll go with windoz.

    Am I being to suspicious?

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  2. same level of security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... the same level of security and protection as the commercial products
    Commercial products = Windows? No, we don't want Linux to have the same level of security and protection, do we?

  3. Hope its for real by gibbo2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As an aussie, I'd love to see this happen, but lets hope its serious and not another "pretend" move to Linux to negotiate better prices with their existing vendors.

    Normally "existing vendors" is Microsoft, but from the article it seems they're currently using a good non-MS mix of Novell, Lotus, SAP and Oracle on Solaris.