LinuxWorld Australia: Centrelink to Migrate 450 Windows Systems to Linux

"As part of a $312 million infrastructure refresh project, Centrelink will migrate at least 450 Windows servers over to Linux and join the small number of enterprises running the open source operating system on the mainframe.

"Centrelink infrastructure planner David Oram said the bulk of the department's infrastructure consists of about 1400 Intel servers and 300 Sun servers, with the Intel systems 'roughly' split between Windows and NetWare..."

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