Migrating to Linux
ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu) is a well known organization in Tamil Nadu and it provides IT procurement services to the Government of Tamil Nadu. It has done away with its legacy enterprise server and has embraced SUSE enterprise server.
Tamil Nadu’s schools were running Microsoft Windows on a horde of aging machines—1,880 servers and around 30,000 desktops. The OS was in need for a refresh; however, moving to Windows Vista looked like an expensive option largely on account of the increased hardware requirement. ELCOT decided to move its own systems from Windows to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. After the success of this project, the company is rolling out SUSE Linux Enterprise in Tamil Nadu’s schools. Already over 3,000 new PCs have been supplied to government offices with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop loaded on them.
Looking at the larger picture of continuing with Windows, ELCOT considered that it would be expensive on all fronts to do so. Umashankar said, “Cost was the major factor in moving from Windows to SUSE Linux. We had already invested in servers and OSs such as Windows Vista would have put an additional burden on our costs as we would have had to procure new servers. With SUSE Enterprise Linux we can protect the server investments that we have already made.”
Working with Novell, ELCOT decided to first migrate its own in-house IT systems to Linux, before attempting the larger and more ambitious rollout to the schools and government offices across Tamil Nadu State. “We had to be sure that the Linux solution would satisfy all the requirements,” said Umashankar.
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