[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Located in the Western part of Switzerland, Lausanne, ‘the
smallest of large Swiss cities,’ is the capital of the Canton of
Vaud and has been host to the International Olympic Committee since
1915. With 125,000 inhabitants and a dynamic industrial and
economic environment, the companies said that managing the city
requires significant computer systems. Historically, the management
of the city (population, companies, schools, voters lists, etc.)
was performed on an IBM/390 mainframe. With these applications
slowly growing obsolete, the City needed to replace its systems to
maintain its business operations. The City selected a Java
development architecture, using Open Source components such as
Apache, JBoss and Eclipse, with Oracle on Linux as the
RDBMS…”