[plug] Fwd: [link] Air New Zealand goes Linux! MickySoft out!

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

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> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Air New Zealand goes Linux! MickySoft out!
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:42:00 -0400
> From: "Fred A. Miller" <DESPAMMED>
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> Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes
> running Linux, saving the company a potential NZ$600,000 (£180,000) in
> licence fees alone, according to a report in The New Zealand Herald. The
> company will then be in a position to replace 4000 Microsoft Exchange clients
> with Bynari, an open-source email application. The IBM Z800 mainframes will
> run Linux, Websphere Application Server, DB2 database and Tivoli software.
> 
> Full story:
> 
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020814/152/d7g5d.html
> 
> 

There's a pretty good article about it on the Technology website of the NZ
Herald website at www.nzherald.co.nz

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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