Massive desktop Linux migration kept quiet

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 14, 2006 11:10 PM EDT
ZDNet Australia; By Steven Deare
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Why has the country's biggest known desktop Linux implementation gone relatively unpublicised for so long?

This week I wrote about Kennards Hire's project to migrate its whole IT infrastructure to Linux.

The project should be a milestone reference point for vendors like Novell and Sun who keep telling us Linux is ready for the desktop, despite a dearth of local customers.

We tried to cover the rollout late last year. Kennards were not keen to discuss it until a later date, however.

As it stands now, the desktop component was completed some time ago. Why then, has some marketing machine not told the world about Kennards' rollout?

Answer: because they're using Fedora.

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