[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“Two years ago, Anthony Hill found an IT Tower of Babel in the
data center of San Francisco-based Golden Gate University. The
technology architecture–which served 1,000-plus desktops,
6,000-plus staff and student users and 50,000-plus directory
identities–contained almost every software platform and hardware
system extant. ‘Everything except a mainframe,’ Hill said. As the
institution’s new chief technology officer, he was charged with
creating order in this chaos and restructuring the data center to
facilitate GGU’s goal of operating as efficiently an
e-business.“Linux is playing a key role in GGU’s move from hetero to
homogeneity. In this two-part interview, Hill describes the process
of making platform and application decisions and the pleasant and
unpleasant surprises he’s encountered during the implementation. In
this installment, he explains how GGU created an IT jumble, why
Linux won him over and how he persuaded GGU to use Linux…”