The Swedish armed forces has chosen, like so many others, to migrate from Windows to Linux and Red Hat. The armed forces is currently in a position where it could choose to upgrade its current Windows NT system to a newer Windows or move over to Linux, open source and Red Hat. It already uses Red Hat in large portions of the network and will migrate the rest of the systems soon. The main reasons for picking Red Hat were the high security, the support and the compatibility with current applications. It will most likely continue working in an open source environment in the future, for the very same reasons.
“We are very happy to see that yet another company within the public sector has chosen Red Hat. The fact that the Swedish Armed Forces commit to Red Hat Enterprise Linux shows once again that it is a secure platform with high demands on availability and flexibility. The selection of Red Hat by the Swedish Armed Forces follows a number of public sector Linux projects in Sweden, paving the way for wider adoption within the Swedish government.” – Werner Knoblich, VP, EMEA at Red Hat.
