[General] MEW Switches to RHEL

[Majed B.]

Hahaha, his name is Omar, a technical consultant from KBM.

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:05 PM, bashar abdullah
<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
> First and third letter?
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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