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Sys-Con India: Italian Bank Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux Across Desktops and Servers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2006

“Red Hat announced that BPU Banca, the operational parent bank
of the group Banche Popolari Unite, has chosen to implement Red Hat
Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers.

“The bank is migrating all of its 8,000 UNIX workstation clients
to Red Hat Desktop. In this project BPU Banca will replace Sun
hardware with Intel-based PCs to achieve combined hardware and
software cost savings of about 50%…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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