[ Thanks to Rob
Sixpack for this link. ]
“Telstra’s Project Firefly open-source software trial will be
one of the most closely watched pilots in Australian IT
history.“Until now, the great debate as to whether Linux and the
open-source applications developed for it are worthy of displacing
the Microsoft desktop monopoly mainly has been a war of words,
rather than large-scale deployments by highly visible
enterprises.“Telstra itself has been talking up open-source software pilots
for more than a year. The noise was enough to help lure Microsoft
chief executive Steve Ballmer to these shores last year to see what
all the fuss was about…”