| Australian firm migrates hundreds of desktops to Linux |
Nov. 03, 2005
Australian human resources firm Kennards Hire has announced it will migrate more than 400 desktops to Linux in a nation-wide deployment of the open source operating system, Computerworld reports. Scheduled for completion next January, the migration began with a trial of one branch. Eighty locations will eventually be affected.
The Kennards project, due for completion in March of next year, will also involve conversion of the company's point-of-sale (POS) systems to Linux. This will allow Kennards use standard PCs for POS instead of proprietary dedicated devices, according to the Computerworld article.
Linux desktops gaining acceptance
This move is just the latest in a growing trend... - China announced last month that it is currently installing 142,000 Linux PCs in public school classrooms
- MIT unveiled a plan to give 15 million $100 Linux laptops to school kids in Third World countries
- In September, Indonesia adopted JDS on Linux as its "national desktop" for use in the public sector and committed to purchasing an unspecific number from Sun Microsystems
- South Korea is moving 4,700 public desktops to Linux
- Linux machines displaced 2,460 Windows XP desktops in rural Italian schools last summer
Read the complete Computerworld article here.
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