[Discussioni] [NEWS] Italian Bank Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Desktops and Servers

[Andrea Glorioso]

FYI

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/Apr/1131941.htm

MILAN, Italy --(Business  Wire)-- April 7,  2005 -- BPU Banca Migrates
from Sun Solaris  to Red  Hat  Enterprise Linux to Reduce  Workstation
Cost by 50% and Avoid Vendor Lock-in

Red  Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT),  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%.

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