The FAA Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Linux 191
Neopallium writes "Red Hat has announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The FAA executed a major systems migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one-third of the original scheduled time and with 30 percent more operational efficiency than the previous system."
Nice point for linux arguments: (Score:1, Insightful)
to RedHat, but what FROM? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:careful of the source (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:More of these types of success stories (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:careful of the source (Score:2, Insightful)
I think the OP was not so much complaining about red hat's actions as the submitters (and by extension the editors).
Red Hat releasing a press release = OK.
Slashdot featuring regurgitation of said press release on its front page as 'news' = not OK.
(At least this shows the MS / Apple Fanboys that the
Re:More of these types of success stories (Score:2, Insightful)
I hope Linus isn't free-as-in-beer.
Re:careful of the source - The Real Question Here (Score:4, Insightful)
Microsoft was never punished because the telco couldn't admit that it wasn't true.
Re:careful of the source (Score:3, Insightful)
It's also pretty easy to plant a few favorable articles around the place to give yourself PR. It's just marketing. I treat slashdot articles as basically like a tech news wire.. Most of them are probably planted by marketing firms (it's not like slashdot is some secret hideout, everyone knows about it,) so take it with a grain of salt.
Re:careful of the source (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:careful of the source (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:careful of the source (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot doesn't practice "journalism." If you want that, look elsewhere.
It should be pointed out, though, that the
Does not sound like Windows (Score:3, Insightful)
So far many/most large to-Linux migrations have been from some Unix-like or big-iron OS. Very few have been from-Microsoft.
Re:Nice point for linux arguments: (Score:3, Insightful)
I've flown for hours at a time without talking to the FAA, and my plane didn't fall out of the sky. The FAA doesn't keep the planes from falling out of the sky, they keep them from hitting each other, and *then* falling out of the sky. And even then they're barely up to the job.
But this isn't that system. I'm not sure, but I think this is the system that gives airlines ground holds to keep them from spending too much time in holding patterns.
Re:careful of the source (Score:3, Insightful)
Agreed. In fact, I've seen press releases that began with the words "for immediate release" and similar verbiage... I would say that such articles are closer to being up front about their press-release status. Whereas the only thing that might be taken to be indicative of press release status for this article (aside from the print buried at the end that you point out) is that it is so rosy; but anyone who thinks that such rosiness makes its provenance obvious is making an implicit statement that there is no such thing as purely good news, a position which is either too cynical or too foolish for me to relate to.
Couldn't agree more (Score:2, Insightful)
The only exceptions I can think of to the "don't trust press releases" rule are cases where there is nobody stands to profit from the news or there are no specific claims made beyond mundane facts such as a product launch.
-matthew
Re:Does not sound like Windows (Score:3, Insightful)