French education authorities migrate to Linux
The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of a strategy to invest in open-source solutions and avoid proprietary software lock-ins.
The public body's decision to migrate to Red Hat Linux follows the announcement last week that Red Hat's rival Novell is in the process of migrating 40 percent of Germany's university students and thousands of university staff to its Suse Linux products.
Michel Affre, IT systems manager at the French Ministry for Education, said: "Having first abandoned Gecos 7 and DPS 7, and gradually the AIX system, the ministry determined from 2000 that it would drastically lower its costs by definitively decoupling the operating-system supplier from the hardware supplier.
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