Air Force says watching Linux as "emerging"

By klsh on November 13, 2002 8:13 PM | | TrackBacks (0)

Air Force developing online guide


Nelson said the Air Force's baseline environment for desktop operating systems includes six options, but the service's tactical goal is to get that down to the two that are deemed "mainstream" — Microsoft Corp. Windows 2000 and Sun Microsystems Inc. Solaris 7.0 — within three years. Anything older than Windows 95 has been given "retirement" status, while Windows XP and GNU/Linux are "emerging" and under evaluation.

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