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"With nearly 560 employees, 90 dealer franchises and an annual revenue of $250 million, International Trucks is one of the country's biggest manufacturers of haulage vehicles. Based in Melbourne, it has additional branch offices in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland as well as one in Melbourne's western suburbs. Since 1992, it has been part of the multinational Iveco Group, the truck manufacturing arm of automobile giant Fiat..." "It came down to a choice between NT or Linux, and when you start looking at the cost of transferring one operating system to another, Linux was massively cheaper than NT. We have justified this entire project on the basis that the three-year rental cost of a replacement server, and additional equipment required, is less than the maintenance charges for the Wang VS..." "Given that Linux is relatively new to the corporate consciousness, the company initially viewed its new application platform -- Red Hat Linux 5.2 running on a standard Dell server -- with a healthy dose of caution. The ported application has been tested at International Trucks' Laverton, Victoria service location for nearly five months in order to assess its viability for rollout within the other branches. Since then, says Charles, the Linux server's 100% uptime has changed the company's thinking substantially..."
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