| Ma Bell looks at Linux for 70,000 desktops |
Oct. 05, 2004
An article in Bloomberg News reports that AT&T is currently evaluating Linux for its employee desktops, estimating 70,000 PCs would run Linux company-wide at the largest US long distance provider in a move to open source.
The article says that the company will make a decision by the end of 2005 and has a team of 20 to 30 researchers tasked with the testing process. On the reasons for looking to open source as the solution, AT&T CIO Hossein Eslambolchi is quoted as saying, "Just like every other chief information officer in the country, I have to worry about reliability, security, productivity and lowering my costs."
In July, Cisco CIO Brad Boston gave the greenlight to 35,000 employees who can opt to use desktop Linux instead of Windows, acknowledging that the company has a grass-roots Linux effort that began in engineering. Boston also reportedly runs Linux on his IBM laptop.
This summer also saw Symantec's CEO John Thompson publicly discuss a corporate-wide move to Linux desktops. Linux makers Novell and IBM have also announced major in-house desktop migration strategies.
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