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Linux goes mission-critical for Danish government
The Danish Ministry of Finance has chosen JBoss running on Linux over Microsoft's BizTalk to run a data-exchange system
The Ministry of Finance in Denmark has implemented an open-source project to simplify data exchange between systems.
The data-exchange system uses open-source application server JBoss running on Red Hat Linux. It transmits 1.5 megabits of data per second between around 400 public institutions and the ministry, according to a Computer Science Corporation (CSC) "report on open source:http://www.csc.com/features/2004/uploads/LEF_OPENSOURCE.pdf.
Peter Henningsen, the data-exchange project manager at the Ministry of Finance, said the open-source combination was chosen over Microsoft's systems integration application BizTalk Server.
The main reason for the choice was cost, the project budget was only two million Danish Kroner (around £183,800). Henningsen pointed out that JBoss is a stable platform, which was essential for the mission-critical application.
Source: ZDNet UK
