[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this
link. ]
“Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith has revealed plans
to shift the telco’s back-office systems to the Linux operating
system ‘wherever possible’, to take advantage of the platform’s
commodity pricing.“And where Linux cannot scale to cope with the company’s
gargantuan applications–such as its billing systems–Telstra plans
to shift to a Unix base, Smith said. Or more specifically, the
shift will be to the Sun Solaris flavour of Unix.“Telstra has already standardised all enterprise application
development work on the Linux platform, Smith said. And it has
already implemented Linux extensively across its IT infrastructure,
particularly in Web servers, and increasingly application server
functions…”