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U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS
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| The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage
| its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the
| better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol
| and had to be converted for Linux -- a less expensive option than rewriting
| it altogether.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-foss
Related:
OpenReferent - a New Open Source Challenge to Microsoft Desktop Software
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| Mr Pogodin, Deputy General Director of Post of Russia, said: "Post of Russia,
| which has 42,000 post offices through out the country, can significantly
| lower the cost of ownership of the Information System." Post of Russia is one
| of the first customers that signed up to evaluate themove from Microsoft
| based desktops to OpenReferent solution.
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| [...]
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| Open Referent is based on the recently announced IBM Lotus Open Collaboration
| Client Solution with Red Hat.
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| Business partners classified as Red Hat Advanced Business Partners and
| Lotus-authorized IBM Business Partners may sell the Red Hat and IBM Lotus
| products globally with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, and may
| additionally offer a six-month Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop trial.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb823104.htm
Russian Postal Service Wears Red Hat
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| Russian Post and American company Red Hat signed the Protocol of intentions
| on IT development based on open freeware earlier this month. Andrey Pogodin,
| Deputy Director General of FSUE Russian Post and Jim Whitehurst, President of
| Red Hat signed the document within the framework of meeting. The parties
| agreed to join efforts to implement operating system Linux and other software
| products with open code in Russian Post’s IT-structure.
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http://www.hellmail.co.uk/postalnews/templates/postal_global_news.asp?articleid=402&zoneid=11
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