FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux

Another straw in the wind: following last week’s news that the US Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, today comes word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google’s new online business applications running on Linux-based hardware.

Is this another nail in the coffin? Not quite, but it’s a statement. Not upgrading to Vista is one thing, moving to an entirely different OS is another. The conversion won’t happen overnight though, as employees would be lacking in needed training.

Source: Slashdot