On February 2nd, the German National Railway Bureau announced successfully transferred 55,000 Lotus Notes users to the open source operating system, which also became the world's largest Linux transfer activity. When talking about the company's milestone transfer activity, Deutsche Bahn Aktiengesellschaft is called to open source platform, which can save costs, enhance flexibility, and generate integrated benefits. In the end, the company will transfer the rest to the Linux open source system.
Previously, the company had transferred its Level Time system from HP's Non-Stop to the Linux system. Next, the company plans to transfer all kinds of SAP systems, including Unix sales support systems and other transfer to Linux systems. By this year, all important systems, including databases, application servers, web servers, email servers, and network architectures will be transferred to the Linux system.
This huge project has made the Munich municipal system in Munich's munition to lose color. The German railway department has been systematically switched by half of 300 servers before November 2004. Declaration of February 2, prove that the company will accelerate the transfer of open source systems. DEUTSCHE BAHN's product executive Detlef Exner said, "Our mission is to develop and install effective and economical IT service systems for German railways, Linux is an important element in our strategy, we will successfully run the Lotus Notes system The host is transferred to Linux flat, which means that this huge project will eventually succeed. "IBM, providing hardware products for the company, also focusing on this huge system transfer plan.
