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Red Hat and Novell salivate as Navy learns to count servers

Publication:The RegisterDate:Jun 18 2005
Reporter:Ashlee Vance

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Lick your chops, Red Hat and Novell, because the owner of the world's second largest network is looking to standardize on one flavor of Linux.

So says Capt. Chris Christopher, a top dog in the Department of the Navy's Program Executive Office for Information Technology, in a recent interview. The Navy has just used a new IT asset discovery system to find what boxes and software are present in its massive network - said to be second in size only to the internet. The survey technology turned up a massive amount of disparate operating systems and, in particular, a bunch of Linux distros.




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