| Indian bank deploys Red Hat Linux on 10,000 desktops |
Oct. 19, 2005
India's Canara Bank has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its OS of choice as it automates more than 1,000 of its branches, reports Infoworld/Netherlands. The move involves about 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops. Canara is one of India's largest government-owned banks.
Stories about Linux installations like this one in far-flung parts of the world are becoming more commonplace as time goes on. China announced earlier this 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.
Last month, 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, and Linux machines displaced 2,460 Windows XP desktops in rural Italian schools last summer.
To read the rest of the Canara Bank story, go here.
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