The FAA Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Linux

Neopallium writes "Red Hat has announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The FAA executed a major systems migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one-third of the original scheduled time and with 30 percent more operational efficiency than the previous system."

Comments

Re:About time

[bshellenberg]

Protecting the country by sending your troops to the other side of the world? Saving the economy by having high levels of unemployment? Controlling government spending by running up the largest deficit in the history of the world? Oh... tell your uncle George I said hi. You are a "republican", huh? Your rosey glasses don't let you see reality.

Re:No wonder they saved $15 million dollars!

[DragonTHC]

It's extremely easy to install on linux.

launch the package manager and select what you want to install and insert the disk, and click the mouse.

if you consider trying to install something you need to compile from source as "hard as hell", I don't know what to tell you.

millions of admins install from source for a lot of reasons. you prefer to install binaries.

well, bottom line, you prefer a computer system that doesn't require you to think because you're lazy.

Not that I'm a linux snob, but you really are just lazy.