AT&T looking at Linux for its 70K desktops : Tue, 05 Oct 2004

Citing frustrations over frequent recent virus outbreaks, AT&T's information chief Hossein Eslambolchi is exploring the possibility of replacing Windows with Linux on their 70,000 desktop workstations, according to the report in Bloomberg. Eslambolchi, looking forward to his next desktop upgrade in 2006 or 2007 and weighing his options, states that if Microsoft fixes its security problems by then, he may not need to switch.

Of course the article also mentions that the whole "we're switching to Linux" thing is a popular posturing tactic taken by many IT chiefs these days just to scare better prices out of Redmond. Nonetheless it'd be cool to see the Deathstar (see AT&T logo) running Linux. --CG   Source: http://www.uhacc.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

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