Federal Computer Week: White Hats Don Red Hat | Linux Today

Federal Computer Week: White Hats Don Red Hat

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 30, 2006

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

“The U.S. Marshals Service is switching the databases at all 94
of its district offices in the United States and its territories to
Red Hat Linux.

“The Marshals expect to have as much as 80 percent of their
production databases and all of their data running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux by the end of June, said John Campbell, an
information technology specialist for the Marshals’ Justice
Detainee Information System. The move will include all databases
for prisoner information, some financial databases and
decision-support systems…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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