BRAVO LINUX - US Army struggles with Windows to Linux overhaul

[techtronic]

Looks like everybody wants to kick a$$ Microsoft's OS.

Good to see Linux come up and make Microsoft reduce its OS prices more frequently.

In multiple media reports over the past two weeks, the US Army has professed its love for the penguin. The Army eventually intends to move from a Windows-based infrastructure over to Linux for its new, roughly $200bn weapons program.
But the Army has largely been prepping new Linux-friendly weapons, vehicles, and devices before the completion of a software network to connect them to its existing Windows-based infrastructure — or blithely, putting the chariot before the warhorse.
When the Army began development of its next-gen hardware (dubbed Future Combat Systems, or FCS), they turned to Boeing and SAIC to develop the operating system rather than basing the software on its established Blue Force Tracking.


Read More : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02...x_integration/

[praka123]

gr8 go! poor M$haft