[General] MEW Switches to RHEL

[Majed B.]

I know the guy behind installing Linux (RHEL 5.4) from KBM's side :)

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, bashar abdullah
<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know the guy behind it, the consultant working for the ministry is an open
> source developer for one of the KDE packages and he's mandating Linux
> compatibility for the infrastructure. He was mostly SUSE fan however.
> Perhaps recent Novell/MSFT events pushed him in another direction.
> But the thing is, all these are plans on paper for years. When is there
> gonna be real deployment, that's the question.
> And I would guess it would be KBM, they have very strong position in the
> ministry.
>
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> KBM is handling that as far as I know. I was surprised, but truly
>> appreciate the effort.
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) has announced plans to
>> > switch
>> > its data centre Linux deployment, with a move from Novell SUSE Linux
>> > Enterprise Server 10 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>> >
>> > MEW will migrate mission critical systems running its Automated Meter
>> > Infrastructure and Geographic Information System, along with HR,
>> > business
>> > intelligence and CRM applications.
>> >
>> > The utility, which serves more than 800,000 customers, cited the lower
>> > TCO
>> > of Red Hat, and its ability to keep infrastructure stable and secure and
>> > running to key service levels, as reasons for the switch.
>> >
>> > "Adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a technology platform offers MEW
>> > the
>> > opportunity to solidify our business continuity," said Ali AlWazzan,
>> > undersecretary for Information Technology at MEW. "With Red Hat
>> > Enterprise
>> > Linux, we're offered a valuable subscription model, a robust certified
>> > ecosystem and high-performance technology to fit our business needs.
>> > With a
>> > strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux base, we will additionally be able to
>> > investigate future plans to utilize virtualization and cloud computing
>> > technologies in our IT infrastructure."
>> >
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