FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Another straw in the wind: following last week's news that the US Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, today comes word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google's new online business applications running on Linux-based hardware. (The FAA is part of the DOT.) The FAA's CIO David Bowen told InformationWeek he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. 'From a security and management standpoint that would have some advantages,' he said."

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But Google's gmail has been cracked

[Anonymous Coward]

gmail is not secure. It routinely is trolled by bad guys. Believe it or not. And I don't mean Google itself, but crackers/hackers. Just like eBay, just like most sites. If some US Department of something wants to use gmail, google apps, I can see it now. Al Quida will just walk right in and look over anything and everything. Not that the transportation dept. has much to do about anything, but now you know.

Oh yeah, another nail in the coffin

[cybrthng]

for Small Business USA. Fantastic, lets worship another "overlord" and move everything we do to a REAL "black-box" company. "all your datas are belong to us"!

At least with Microsoft Products i can still sell my services, support, licensing, hardware and services. Google? I can sell a short contract to replace myself.

Google? Meh

I've got something to say....

[Anonymous Coward]

I killed your baby today

Re:Google Apps Appliance

[suv4x4]

The fact that you clarify in obvious things, which I didn't for the sake of length and clarity of my main point, show that you missed that main point.

Too bad.

It's unAmerican! Off to Gitmo with ya

[gelfling]

Clearly it is unAmerican and probably treason to adopt the terrorist loving commie queer homosexual lesbian feminist Liberal non Redmond operating systems. Why does the FAA hate America?

Every time I go outside...

[TheNinjaroach]

and I'm not blown up by a terrorist, should I thank the DHS?

Sorry, I don't give thanks to the government for non-incidents. I'll thank the FAA every time I take my shoes off or have to throw out a perfectly good bottle of water to board. If airplanes started to crash the problem would be corrected without government intervention because the airline business would pick up the slack. They have other reasons besides mandated regulation to keep air travel safe. If they didn't, people would be scared to fly and the business would fail.