New Job, Same Old Business
I've just started work on Monday at my new employer,
TransACT, a fibre and copper
communications provider in (as the name implies) the Australian
Capital Territory. I've read through the employee handbook, done all
the financial documentation, been given a computer and installed Fedora
9 on it. The majority of the team here use Mac Minis as their desktop
machines, because there's a high requirement to use Unix commands to
manage the network infrastructure. Of course, we still have to hook
into the Microsoft Windows support infrastructure, but that's hardly a
challenge these days.
The reason I mention this is because TransACT and its parent company
ActewAGL are featured on Microsoft Australia's
"Get
The Facts" pages as some kind of 'shining example' of a company
that "Wave[d] Goodbye To Linux" and somehow saved money. The facts
are radically different, even from the small sample I've seen so far. All
the network infrastructure, from the set top boxes to the DHCP servers to
the encryption server for the IPTV, run on some kind of Unix - Debian
Linux seems to be the predominate flavour. Microsoft's "case study" is
really just a small part of TransACT and ActewAGL's business, and it's
hardly "waved goodbye" to Linux in the organisation.
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