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Federal Aviation Administration Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Business Wire 2006 ^
| 04/26/06
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Posted on 04/27/2006 11:25:00 AM PDT by Salo
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Communism!
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:25:03 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Aeronaut
2
posted on
04/27/2006 11:25:37 AM PDT
by
AntiKev
(We pilots count our time in the air as if all other time is unimportant.)
To: Salo
Works for me!
(Or will soon)
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:26:28 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Salo
So, when was the last time a government project was completed in less time than projected and at less than half the cost?
Bravo, Redhat! Bravo, Linux!
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:28:24 AM PDT
by
TChris
("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
To: ShadowAce; N3WBI3; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Tech pings. Nice to see how government spending can be cut and taxpayer money saved by using the right tools.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:29:00 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Salo
Please tell me you're joking. Linux is way more reliable and robust than anything Microsoft has ever released, or will release.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:29:21 AM PDT
by
kruelio
To: Salo; rdb3; ShadowAce; N3WBI3; Golden Eagle; DemosCrash
And Scott McNealy resigned from CEO yesterday after announcing another down quarter.
Hmmmm.....
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:29:50 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: kruelio
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:38:05 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Incorrigible
Sun having a down quarter hardly counts as news anymore. :-)
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:39:38 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Salo
Exactly. As much as many try to portray the advance of Linux as progress against Windows, the reality is that Linux is eating away at commercial UNIX and Sun Micro in particular.
Although it doesn't say, I presume the FAA's previous systems were of a commercial UNIX variety.
No love lost for Scott but I'm not sure this is a good thing.
10
posted on
04/27/2006 11:42:37 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Salo
but but but...if we allow the government to run linux, the terrorists, pirates and eeevil hackers win!
Or the Red Chinese will clone our air traffic control system!
I know they will, I read it *right here* on Free Republic!
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:44:51 AM PDT
by
blowfish
To: Salo
Here comes SCO and its lawyers.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:46:16 AM PDT
by
Minn
To: Incorrigible
Well, RedHat is an American company providing software solutions in a competitive industry, as is Sun. If Red Hat can do the job better for less money...that's what capitalism is all about.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:47:30 AM PDT
by
blowfish
To: Incorrigible
I think he's a jerk, and I won't be sorry not to hear of him anymore, but overall, he was good for Sun. I guess.
No love lost for Scott but I'm not sure this is a good thing.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:48:16 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Salo
Ya beat me to it. I posted the article and was attempting to locate an aviation ping list to ping it to, but it was pulled.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:50:59 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Wear patriotic pins and apparel on May 1!)
To: Salo
That's one of the worst things about the government. They base almost every decision on what's the absolute cheapest, and free software is as cheap as you can possibly go. I for one know I won't feel any safer next time I'm flying!
To: Salo; N3WBI3
Tech pings. I'm in Perl class today. Don't have access to my ping list.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:57:17 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Incorrigible
Although it doesn't say, I presume the FAA's previous systems were of a commercial UNIX variety.From what I understand of the FAA infrastructure, chances are whatever was being replaced predates unix, probably by decades :-)
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posted on
04/27/2006 12:07:59 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Wear patriotic pins and apparel on May 1!)
To: zeugma
Continental 183; This is Newark Tower; You're clear to land on runway 22R...
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posted on
04/27/2006 12:12:22 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: ShadowAce
I wonder if there is a way to automate pinglists, where you could feed a script the article number, and it would generate a ping message automagically.
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posted on
04/27/2006 12:13:35 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Wear patriotic pins and apparel on May 1!)
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