Linuxaid.com.cn site latest information: As a $ 1.22 million information base construction replacement project, the Australian Government Work Agent Center CENTRELINK will convert at least 450 Windows servers into Linux products in the next period.
Centrelink Planner David ORAM revealed that the core system of the entire center consists of 1400 Intel servers and 300 Sun servers. In the Intel framework server, both Windows and NetWare systems are used. He firmly said: We hope to turn Windows, NetWare, Solaris and other systems into Linux.
David acknowledged that he has been told that the server's budget will be reduced by 170,000 AUD. Therefore, some measures must be taken to reduce operational costs. At the same time, he believes that the center is currently using four operating systems, which will gradually decrease to three, two.
Centrelink will adopt a SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) from Novell. The first batch of servers will be responsible for documents and printing services. ORAM individual is very interested in open source software, in addition to the Linux operating system, he also intends to use some open source applications.
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