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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."
"The FAA's successful and impressive migration truly exemplifies the value, performance and security
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,"
All the stories talks about is how they came in under budget. Another reason for saving 15 million
could be that someone simply budgeted too much money. Much like when your wife spends $200 on a pocket
book that normally cost $250, and then she tells you that she saved $50!.
D*mn women.. oh wait.. what was I talking about again?
I think lift has more to do with keeping planes in the sky. Otherwise the FAA coud declare gravity a terrorist "force"
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
"So, airlines are going bankrupt all over the place, ticket sales are down, and we're still in no position to catch terrorists."
"That sounds bad."
"But there is good news."
"What's that?"
"I just saved a bunch of money on datacenter operating and upgrading costs by switching to Linux."
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
>Everything about it shouts "press release",
:)
Not quite. Looking carefully, I found a sentence in which the author failed to use "Red Hat Enterprise Linux." There might be a scond one, but I missed it
hawk
Gravititional forces are terrifying. At this point, it's the second strongest force known to man behind p0rn. Nothing is stronger than p0rnal forces.
They use a little-known distro called Bernoullix.
F*cking the article? You have a strange fetish, my friend.
The Article is biased by the use of the word "migrating". Given all of the illegal immigration news in the US, the term was used to slant the article towards Microsoft by the use of the derogatory term "migrate" in reference to Linux. But, more correct term should be "upgrading". To be fair.
If you need a reminder who the FAA is: they keep the planes from falling out of the sky.
If you've ever known or talked with an amateur pilot, you would know this is not what the FAA does. Instead, they make sure that instead of driving 4 hours along the highway, you spend 3 hours filling out paperwork and a flight plan, then 1 hour flying to get to the same destination.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I didn't realize that the 2.6 kernel ran on vaccuum tubes! Suppose they just compiled it all "-O2 -march=eniac"
-=JML=-
Back in 1992 I got a tour of the Atlas Computing Centre in the UK (I was doing a particle physics course at nearby RAL). We got to touch the Cray. Ooh geek heaven. Anyway, in the foyer was part of one of their first computers, the Atlas 1. It looked like a modular synth, all cables and patch leads. The guide then told us there were only three of these left - this one here, one behind glass in the Science Museum in London, and one other... ...currently doing Air Traffic Control for Heathrow Airport. He wasn't joking.
Who got the facts NOW!??
You ain't got no facts, Bill! We got the facts!