Linux opens London's Oyster

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 23, 2008 3:14 PM EDT
ZDNet.co.uk; By Peter Judge
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Open-source software helped London's Oyster card system move past a proprietary roadblock, an open-source conference in London was told last week. The Oyster contactless card system, which handles payments for travel on London's buses and Tube system, suffered from lock-in to proprietary systems, which hindered developments to the online payment systems, said Michael Robinson, a senior consultant with Deloitte, at the Open Source Forum event in London. "The hosting was on a proprietary system, centred on one application," he said. "It demanded certain hardware, and was locked into one design of infrastructure."

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