News.com.au: Telstra Goes Open-Source

“Under Project Firefly, Telstra switched on a desktop trial in
March using two flavours of Linux and a Citrix-based Windows
system, aimed at shifting up to 85 per cent of its computing
desktops to thin-client technology.

“Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith said he was
determined to end a history of internal duplication and technology
incompatibility by deploying open-source software right across the
telecoms giant, which spends $1.5 billion each year on information
technology. He aims to slice this cost in half within three
years.

“‘I would see a big movement from Windows and Unix to Linux,’ Mr
Smith said. ‘One of the by-products of Linux having its heritage in
Unix is that it is a very stable operating system…'”

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