Italian Bank Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[Posted April 7, 2005 by cook]

Red Hat has announced a conversion from Sun/Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by Italy's BPU Banca. "Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that BPU Banca, the operational parent bank of the group Banche Popolari Unite, Italy's seventh largest banking group and first co-operative credit banking group, has chosen to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. The bank is migrating all of its 8,000 UNIX workstation clients to Red Hat Desktop. In this project BPU Banca will replace Sun hardware with Intel-based PCs to achieve combined hardware and software cost savings of about 50%."