USPS Goes To Open Source For Their Operting System

Hi guys...Guess even the USPS has finally gone away from the old and not so secure OS...They will be using Linux for there tracking system..Smart move..( P.S.- guess who has been using Linux for a long time...Some guy named wert...HAHA)

)Any ways, below is the link if any one is interested.

Robert
http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/07/13/....aspx?Page=1

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Thanks for the link.
USPS bought Novell's SUSE Linux for mainframes (not quite the same thing as using some free version of a desktop Linux). Any idea on what they paid for it? Also sounds like they had significant costs involved in the port from their old Sun platform; that's never a cheap or easy task. The need to do this port may well have figured greatly in their decision(s).
Don

Along with moving away from the dying Sun platform to HP, I also think trying to find anyone experienced in Cobol, or willing to learn Cobol and maintain Cobol also figured into the decision. :) (If I recall Boeing had a similar problem a few years back.) And, I am sure we (the tax payer) are paying dearly for this port since porting one programming language to another is no small task and tools are fallible. Programmers will likely charge a premium to debug those ports...I know I would. :)

This sort of fits in with this thread so I thought I'd post it. I'm no computer expert, but this sounds like a lucractive contract published in today's news (04/22/2015):




http://www.waaytv.com/tech_alabama/...6d3a4ae.html

I've been a Linux user since 1996. I've watched it grow from something that you tinker with and then boot back into Windows, to something that can replace Windows for a lot of people.

There's no way the USPS is going to run a free version of Linux they get from a CD download. If something breaks, you need to call someone that can help you.

It's really said that Sun is considered an aging system. It seems that Oracle is where good software goes to die...