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I was interested to see this Information Technology Bulletin from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Office for Information Technology.  The bulletin lays out the Commonwealth’s policy regarding a standard for which Linux servers can be used within the State government.

This does not specify that they are standardizing on Linux, it simply states that as far as Linux use goes they are standardizing on Red Hat and Novell.   Their reasons for specifying a standard are to help from each agency having to “reinvent the wheel” and to be able to grow a knowledgeable human resource base.  They have choosen to accept a dual standard to keep their options open and to avoid getting locked into either one of the two vendors.

The bulliten also states that Linux is already being used sporadically accross the enterprise in a wide variety of forms from vitualized instances on mainframes to simple firewalls.

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