Thursday, January 30, 2003

Homeland Security Switches Out Windows for Linux. According to the latest Netcraft data, Energis Squared is now hosting the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Personnel Management servers on Linux, rather than Windows 2000, says NewsForge. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] ANOTHER big win for Linux. 1:13:37 PM    comment []

IBM, SuSE Notch Another Linux Win. In another European Linux win for IBM and SuSE Linux A.G., the Kommunales Rechenzentrum Niederrhein (KRZN), a public sector data center serving more than 60 counties in the northwestern section of Germany, has chosen to run Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] Go baby, go.  I must admit, I'm a little surprised by this -- running Linux on a mainframe in a production environment.  However, it's another big win and it spreads the love.  It's all good. 8:45:33 AM    comment []

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