Open Source in the EU - how one agency introduced it (Register) [LWN.net]

The Register looks into how the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) is planning on using Linux. "Hans-Georg Wagner, head of EMEA's communications and networking unit, is a self-confessed Linux fan, and hopes to be able to give Linux a bigger slice of the pie in the future, but is currently taking a hard-headed view of what Linux can and can't do for his organisation. EMEA requires 99.99 per cent uptime on its core systems, and in his view that pretty much dictates commercial Unix running on non-Intel platforms, because although Intel servers are attractive from the bangs per buck point of view, reliability can still be an issue, and Wagner can't afford to have his servers falling over. So for now, Unix does mission critical, while Linux comes in around the edges where uptime isn't quite such a necessity."

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Open Source in the EU - how one agency introduced it (Register)

Posted Dec 9, 2002 1:09 UTC (Mon) by markus.wuebben (guest, #8458) [Link]

While I think Mr. Wagner is of course right that Intel's hardware is (not yet?) ready for enterprise systems, Linux is. Consider IBM's Linux for zSeries and S/390 efforts.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/
http://oss.software.ibm.com/linux390/index.shtml

Kind regards,
Markus Wuebben