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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Please note, after you go looking further into some of the articles that are being used to make the claims, you find this:
The Canadian air traffic control system runs on windows NT, and is in the middle of being rolled out. They won't move to Vista either. It doesn't mean that vista is a good or bad product, but that the system is heavily invested in software that isn't compatible.
I don't understand how they handle compatibility issues by moving to linux. That just seems to be a really weird move.
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Same thing with banks and so on. The software has to be in use for something like 5 years before it can go live for security reasons.
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