Czech Post Turns to SUSE Linux

ssbljk writes "Czech Post is the second largest employer in the Czech Republic with nearly 3,400 post offices and 40,000 employees. The company delivers nearly a billion letters and receives more than 100 million postal orders each year. Czech Post relies on APOST, a customized system used by 20,000 employees for all postal operations. APOST had been running on a range of operating systems including DOS and Microsoft Windows NT, but reached a point where running in a proprietary environment was proving too costly. With a disparate environment across 3,400 locations, Czech Post was experiencing increased administration costs, as well as downtime and security issues. In just 10 months, Czech Post installed the new SUSE LINUX-based APOST system on 4,000 servers at 3,400 post offices across the country, as well as at 12,000 client terminals used by 20,000 employees. The company now has a centralized infrastructure with support for remote monitoring that will significantly reduce administration costs. "

Comments

A New Hope?

[Maljin Jolt]

Since the Czech Post is a state controlled company, it is a significant breakthrough against Microsoft's traditionally strong position inside czech government.

In a wider context, unfortunately Ministery of Education is still under heavy M$ lobby influence and a bilions of CZK costly Internet for schools project is still chained to Windows, no open data formats for documents available but the IE's nonstandard HTML dialect (generated by winword) and only Windows applications could apply for the project.

As a result, typical czech school network is a paradise tool for spammers.