US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux 477
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kdawson
from the cobol-package-management dept.
from the cobol-package-management dept.
twitter writes "The US Postal Service has moved its Cobol package tracking software to HP machines running GNU/Linux. 1,300 servers handle 40 million transactions a day and cost less than the last system, which was based on a Sun Solaris environment." The migration took a year. The USPS isn't spelling how big the savings are, except that they are "significant."
For once ... (Score:5, Funny)
Now? (Score:2, Funny)
With all those "savings" are we going to see a decrease in the cost of postage?
Oh wait...
Looks like (Score:2, Funny)
Someone needs to get the facts!
If they switched to Windows instead, they'd probably see twice the savings.
Just ask the London Stock Exchange.
Find It Yourself (Score:5, Funny)
They moved their package tracking system to Linux? I wonder if, when you ask it where your shipment is, it will tell you to find it yourself in a condescending manner.
Re:For once ... (Score:5, Funny)
Score 0: Trite (Score:5, Funny)
Submitted with the headline "Linux Penguin goes postal."
Re:Find It Yourself (Score:5, Funny)
When you request the location of your package, it just sneers at you and says "Google is your friend."
Hope it wasn't Ubuntu (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For once ... (Score:3, Funny)
Has that *ever* stopped anyone before?
No, and I'm sure there will be some people wanting to know if their mail is going to be delivered by Beowulf Cluster.
Re:For once ... (Score:5, Funny)
No, and I'm sure there will be some people wanting to know if their mail is going to be delivered by Beowulf Cluster.
I, for one, welcome our mail-delivering, Beowulf Cluster overlords.
Postfix! (Score:5, Funny)
Get off my lawn (Score:5, Funny)
If you're 30-something, you rely on email.
If you're in your 20s, you use IM
If you're 13 like me, it's all Twitter, all the time. Bonus: I have no need to receive packages because I shoplift everything.
Re:Boy, what efficiency... (Score:1, Funny)
yes, but do they run linux?
COBOL package tracking? (Score:3, Funny)
Mail server (Score:5, Funny)
Well, look on the bright side...
Now we can say, with all confidence, that the world's largest mail server runs Linux
Re:Boy, what efficiency... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe their servers are in the union?
Re:For once ... (Score:5, Funny)
Ruby/Apache/X.org/KDE/GNU/Linux
Actually, I think that would be Ruby/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux or PHP/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux - but depending on whether they're using it for backend or desktop service (sorry, too lazy to RTFA) I'd think that either [Ruby|PHP]/Apache/GNU/Linux, or OO.org/[KDE|GNOME|XFCE]/[QT]/X.org/GNU/Linux would be more appropriate... but if they're using it for both desktop and server, that would make it
And as soon as RSF starts calling it that, I'll start calling it GNU/Linux :)
Re:Boy, what efficiency... (Score:3, Funny)
they've got little server kids to feed at home.
Servlets?
Re:Typical (Score:4, Funny)
Re:For once ... (Score:3, Funny)
[[OO.org/[KDE|GNOME|XFCE]/[QT]/X.org]|[Ruby/PHP]/Apache]/GNU]/Linux.
And as soon as RSF starts calling it that, I'll start calling it GNU/Linux :)
I think you lost a GTK to go with your QT, but I really replied just to say this is the most fantastic expansion I've seen to date.
Re:Now? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:For once ... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry, the correct phrasing is:
"What is, does it run Linux?"
Re:For once ... (Score:1, Funny)
We are running SLES 10 SP2
We are running on HP "midrange" servers (DL785 G5) and IBM z10 mainframes
We have NOT migrated even 10% of our applications from our Sun environment to HP and/or IBM. So majority of our stuff is still on Sun Solaris (which we probably do have about around 1,300 servers)
We do not own 1,300 servers of HP and/or IBM hardware. I'm not even sure we have enough horsepower to run that many VMs of decent size.
Re:For once ... (Score:5, Funny)
As long as my mail doesn't come covered in hot grits...
Would you object if it came wrapped in Natalie Portman's panties?
Re:For once ... (Score:2, Funny)
Has that *ever* stopped anyone before?
No, and I'm sure there will be some people wanting to know if their mail is going to be delivered by Beowulf Cluster.
So now we'll start asking if it runs on RedHat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, OpenSuse Linux...
You can never win ;-)