New: Faa Manages Air Traffic with Linux

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Faa Manages Air Traffic with Linux
Federal Computer Week
By Sternstein, Aliya
Friday, May 19, 2006

The Federal Aviation Administration has saved $15 million by migrating computers that manage air traffic flow to Linux, according to an announcement issued last week. The upgrade is part of a broader service-oriented architecture initiative that will replace proprietary traffic management systems with applications using Java, Web services, open-source software and Oracle products.

The FAA switched from a proprietary form of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an open-source operating system. In the process, the agency consolidated hardware and software installed in 1999.

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http://linux.ittoolbox.com/news/display.asp?i=143137

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Score one for open source and The OSI, I say. Let us hope that, in time, the rest of the market follows suit.