Posted on 04/27/2006 11:25:00 AM PDT by Salo
Federal Aviation Administration Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux; FAA Achieves 30 Percent More Operational Efficiency for 50 Percent Less Cost
Apr 26, 2006 8:00:00 AM
Copyright Business Wire 2006
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2006--
Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today 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. In addition, by switching to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the FAA realized 50 percent savings and spent less than $10 million on a project initially estimated at $25 million.
Related Quotes Last Change % Change RHAT 30.10 0.15 0.50
The FAA accommodates more than two million passengers on domestic airlines every day. With roughly 8,000 airplanes in the air at any given time, the successful execution of the FAA's mission largely depends on the highly complex Traffic Flow Management (TFM) infrastructure and its real-time Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS). When the administration embarked on a technical refresh effort for the TFM and ETMS, the FAA faced significant implementation time along with a high price tag.
"There is no room for error or down time in our systems," said Joshua Gustin, TFM-Modernization program manager, FAA. "When we first considered refreshing our entire system, we were looking at $25 million in costs and 18 months to full deployment. By switching to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we were able to spend less than $10 million and accomplish a major system modernization in one-third that time. Red Hat Enterprise Linux fixed our problems of reliability and scalability, and gives us the support we need to reduce our risk."
The FAA deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux first in its remote computing locations and later moved Red Hat Enterprise Linuxto its central processing facility located at the Department of Transportation's Volpe Center. By migrating from a costly UNIX platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on its workstations, servers and at the hub site, the FAA was able to eliminate costs and ineffective systems, while creating a scalable architecture that met their high-demand environment today and for the future.
The FAA also used Red Hat onsite training during the modernization project to effectively transition engineers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux through the Red Hat Certified Engineer program.
"For training, we decided more was better, particularly with the developers," said Gustin. "As a result, we made training a priority, and it has really paid off."
"The FAA's successful and impressive migration truly exemplifies the value, performance and security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," said Paul Smith, vice president of government sales operations, Red Hat. "There are scores of agencies across the entire federal government, as well as state and local governments in all 50 states that are moving Unix-like capabilities to Linux on commodity hardware. The fact that Red Hat delivers a platform for better total cost of ownership, throughput, and credentials for strong security makes it the obvious choice when agencies look at either a technical refresh or infrastructure modernization."
To learn more about the FAA's migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, read the case study and view the video testimonial, please visit http://www.redhat.com/.
I am not saying there are not cases where a closed source solution will be cheaper but its sure as hell ain't the case they are typically any easier..
We use curl with bigbrother to test our sites, its a wonderful tool..
That was the cockpit system, no indication it was Linux. The investigation report doesn't even include the word "Linux."
The photo you posted is not related to that incident, and is in fact from the entertainment system of another Airbus model. From the photo, it is not a Linux crash, but an application running on Linux that crashed. Linux is waiting for the program or service to be restarted. I've heard the software behind these systems is pretty slow and buggy.
Damn, you never research, do you?
I never used that, pretty cool. I was originally thinking a script, but I'm not sure how JR handles the authorization in the POST.
Aibus uses Linux for a variety of purposes on their planes and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it. See other links on that thread, and do your own search for "airbus" and "linux" to see all the problems they're having. To try to deny them is ridiculous...
The most generous definition of myriad is 10,000
So please can you post 12 instances where there has been a Linux issue on Airbus?
No, I'm not interested in counting them, I told you how to find some if you want, search for "Airbus" and "Linux".
FD This goes on the lies list
LOL! Never mind all the Linux Liars on that thread claiming the Airbus failures were somehow the fault of Windows! LMAO!!!
LOL you're not about to correct ANY linux lies, you push them as much as anyone. You also always claim you don't have anthing against Microsoft but then call their products "crap" on this very thread. Now if your flaming troll from hell doesn't show up you'll probably ball to the moderator about this post. LOL you're hilarious!
Anyone with a clue could have seen I was tlaking about *not* ripping out the whole environment and replacing it to get a littlt functionality when its already out there and compatable with the current environment.
BTW, Everyone here can see the lie about a myriad of linux problems on airbus when you cant even point out a dozen..
Is it your contention I never say anything good about MS products?
Not for flight control systems, which is what you lied about in your post in that article. I like how the photo you showed wasn't even of the same kind of plane as the one the article was about.
and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it.
While it's never impossible to experience issues with any OS, they're apparently experiencing issues due to poorly written vendor (Panasonic, IIRC) software, not Linux itself. As I said, look at the screen, it's not a kernel panic (= Windows BSOD), but Linux waiting for the software. This is as opposed to the Windows system that screwed up air traffic control due to a bug in Windows itself.
How bad does your OS have to be that SOP is rebooting the machine once a month? Funny thing is that the vendor for that advertised over five nines, which is impossible with 12 Windows reboots in a year (or seven if you let it go to restart automatically).
Could still get 5 9's on a system, just not a server... I.e. Failover clustering..
I have heard from various people about problems with the media software on those systems being slow and unstable, but nothing attributing problems directly to Linux. We know Linux is capable of streaming video to thousands of users all day long without a hitch.
Nope, this was a server. We know it wasn't clustered with failover because it blowing took down the system, plus the fact that reports point to "the" server.
Then youre right, cant get 5'9s on a windows server and unless its a real concrete Linux config I would hesitate to guarentee it on that system either..
Mostly AIX.
If true, IBM must be thrilled, their new product line just cost them $15 million! /sarcasm
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.