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South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city' (ZDNet UK)
ZDNet UK reports that
the South Korean government has plans to showcase the use of Linux, by
paying for a city and a university to deploy the software on their servers
and desktops. "The government believes the showcase city and
university will encourage other organisations to migrate to open source
software. "The test beds will prompt other cities and universities to
follow suit through the showcasing of Linux as the major operating system
without any technical glitches and security issues," said MIC director Lee
Do-kyu, according to The Korea Times."
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South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city' (ZDNet UK) Posted Feb 21, 2006 22:24 UTC (Tue) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link] "'The test beds will prompt other cities and universities to follow suit through the showcasing of Linux as the major operating system without any technical glitches and security issues,' said MIC director Lee Do-kyu" (Emphasis added)Wow. Well, you've got to admit - they aim high. I wish them success in deploying an OS on every single one of their computers without any technical or security issues whatsoever.
South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city' (ZDNet UK) Posted Feb 21, 2006 22:29 UTC (Tue) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] >without any technical or security issues whatsoever
Watch out for Sisyphean tasks.
South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city' (ZDNet UK) Posted Feb 22, 2006 6:31 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] That was clearly "sales talk" meant to get the project started. I mean, when as the last time you heard the proponent of any IT project give the more realistic description: "this is going to be very difficult, and like most IT projects it will probably fall far short of the original targets while overrunning all cost estimates, but please let us try anyway"...
South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city' (ZDNet UK) Posted Feb 23, 2006 6:04 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] Mmmm... Impending Doom...
Why do I get the feeling that this might not necessarily turn out for the best? On purely implementation grounds, not on the strength of Linux, though that's where any failures will be pointed at.
Maybe I'm just too pessimistic.
Maybe they'll fake the results. ;)
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