“When the time came to replace the ageing Sun Solaris machines
that the British Government employed to run its web sites, the CCTA
(Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency) the agency that
advises UK Government departments on the use of technology, and
which also runs the web sites, chose Linux…”
“In actual fact NetCraft picked up the fact that the British
Royal Family are now Linux users, but this does not imply
partiality by Her Royal Highness to the open source movement.
The CCTA actually switched all UK Government web sites over to
Linux following internal tests…“