| German finance ministry division chooses Linux |
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| Publication: | Forbes | Date: | Feb 10 2004 |
A division of the German finance ministry has moved its back office operations to mainframe computers that run Linux, in the latest victory for the upstart operating system in Europe, IBM said on Tuesday.
International Business Machines Corp. said that the finance ministry department, which is responsible for paying public sector employees and for managing certain taxes, installed two large IBM mainframe computers that run both IBM's operating system and Linux.
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