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Astronomical maintenance costs have forced the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to migrate off its proprietary Unix systems to commodity Intel servers running Linux. The outcome was a saving of an estimated $A45,000 a year with further changes on the agenda.
AFMA's senior systems manager Sean Lincolne says the move to Linux for central business systems was an obvious progression as the organisation was an early adopter.
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