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French Ministry for Education Selects Red Hat Soln|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Sep 05, 2007 1832 hrs IST
- Tags : French Ministry for Education Selects Red Hat Soln
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The French Ministry for Education has long been tied to its suppliers' solutions through suppliers' use of proprietary standards for software and hardware. In order to avoid the growing costs associated with proprietary licenses and forced upgrade cycles, it decided to migrate to open standards-based software and hardware solutions, ensuring interoperability and vendor independence for its IT systems.
With a strategy to invest in open-source solutions, in order to free itself from constraints associated with proprietary software and vendor lock-in, the French Ministry has migrated 2,500 servers across 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
The French Ministry for Education was generally satisfied with solutions provided by its previous IT suppliers, but were limited by the high costs of hardware, licences, support, and business applications development. Moving toward standards-based infrastructure and particularly toward open source was a strategic and profitable decision that was enthusiastically received by young recruits in the Ministry's IT departments.
"Having first abandoned GECOS 7 and DPS 7 and gradually the AIX system, the Ministry determined that since 2000 it would drastically lower its costs by definitively decoupling the operating system supplier from the hardware supplier," said Michel Affre, systems manager (IT) of French Ministry for Education. "In doing so, the Ministry has standardized the information system architecture of each local education authority by running its application servers on RHEL operating on standard servers."
"More than 3,000 servers - which represent 80 to 120 servers per local education authority - now operate on Linux, with 80% of them running on RHEL," said Affre. "All of our applications, whether financial applications or tools for managing exams, staff, students, or everyday administrative activities are now supported by RHEL. Our applications suppliers, internal developers, and external partners now develop on open standards to ensure compatibility with Linux and specifically with RHEL."
"In 2004, over 95% of the servers ran on Linux. Today we're close to 100% since we withdrew the last AIX servers at the end of 2006," concluded Affre.
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