Centrelink continues its crawl towards desktop Linux: "Thursday October 28 ZDNet Australia
By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia
Centrelink, the Australian government agency responsible for distributing social security payments, is expecting delivery of Novell's Open Enterprise Server technology early next year -- another step on the organisation's path that seems to lead to the ubiquitous deployment of Linux.
Peter Gunning, Centrelink's national manager for infrastructure architecture, told ZDNet Australia that Centrelink is investigating various combinations of hardware and software to find the best possible solution in terms of manageability, security and efficiency.
According to Gunning, Centrelink's long term goal is to consolidate the organisation's multitude of operating systems onto a single platform -- or as few as are absolutely necessary."
Pete's Points
Watch this space.
Considering that this organisation pays out over A$55 billion to welfare recipients in Australia and has millions of transactions per day, any adoption of Linux will be of great interest to corporations around the world and will no doubt also be of interest to Microsoft.
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