Red Hat scores another Linux victory

Posted by devnet on Apr 8, 2005 3:10 PM EDT
Techworld.com; By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
Mail this story
Print this story

We talk to German insurance company LVM about its 8,500-machine decision.

Red Hat has announced several large European Linux installations, including a deal to implement more than 8,000 desktops for a major German insurance company.

The deal with LVM Versicherungen, announced on Monday, is one of the biggest successes so far for desktop Linux. The City of Munich's decision in May 2003 to switch 14,000 machines from Windows to Linux is still the most significant migration, but it remains at the planning stage. Red Hat said BPU Banca, Italy's seventh-largest banking group, will migrate 8,000 Unix clients to Linux; and Statoil, Norway's largest oil company, has migrated its IT environment from Unix to Linux.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.