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German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 23, 2011 @06:27PM from the jahr-des-linux-auf-dem-desktop dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Linux proponents used to proclaim that the era of Linux on the desktop was just around the corner. That may never come to pass, but there are still occasional wins. For instance, a German insurance giant will be moving 10,000 employees to Linux-based desktop and laptop machines."

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Re:Adaption... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-23 18:50 · Score: 5, Informative

the 2nd paragraph of TFA:

The project included the conversion of 3,000 desktop and laptop computers in LVM's Muenster HQ with a further 7,000 in the company's agencies around Germany. The core software used by the company is LAS, a Java-based claims-processing application of its own design, backed by Lotus Notes, Adobe's Reader and the OpenOffice suite.