Great to see the non-proprietory software brigade gaining ground with a high profile international company like this. The proprietory software companies have been holding us to ransom for far too long.

All we need now is for someone to deal with this regionalised DVD nonsense......!!

Seeing as Specsavers are one of their big case studies...

http://www.progress.com/progress_software/docs/specsavers.pdf

Oh, and I think it's Michael Khan, not Michele Kahn!

Hit them where it hurts.

Go Specsavers. Go RedHat. Go Open Source.

I can just hear Bill Gates cry...

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

Someone had to say it. Anyway, it is good to see a big company do the switch. To change from Active Directory to OpenLDAP is a bold step indeed.

The the best of my knowledge RedHat sell a version of Linux that all the interesting integration stuff runs on. That's about it.

Big up to Scalix and Sirius for making the systems work.

Well I'm glad I went to Specsavers last week for my new glasses. Maybe if this saves them a whole wad of cash it might make other big corporates think about moving over.

Rob

I was in Specsavers recently talking to one of the guys about the move. He said that a significant factor in the choice of Open Source was the release of Windows Vista.

Specsavers had been mulling over a change for quite some time, but were stalling because of the cost of familiarising all their staff with a different operating system. Vista gave them the impetus to change because, had they adopted it, they would have had to re-train their staff anyway. Before Vista the choice was to either pay for re-training, or pay for new MS licences. Now the choice is pay for re-training, and either pay more for new Vista licenses, or get Open Source for free. Easy choice.

This is great news and it looks as if Vista will

do more business for open platforms. Ms takes

the cake for boneheaded companies. If it were

my company I'd have gone this way OpenLDAP

or not if only for the control of software and other

security goodies the lack of malware and the control

of users you get with Linux make it seem a natural

for business settings.

All of this should be well known so why is it taking so long to sink in.