"Sun Microsystems finally received the seal of approval it has been seeking from a large private sector client for its Java Desktop System, with the announcement Tuesday that the Allied Irish Bank is migrating 7,500 users to the software," reports ZDNet (UK).
"The bank's offices in Ireland, Northern Ireland and mainland Britain will move to JDS during 2005 as part of a wider move to a new branch banking platform. The bank said in a statement that it chose JDS, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers, because of its 'integrated environment based on open-source components and industry standards'."
Robin Wilton [Sun's program manager for JDS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa] "said the bank's JDS installation would replace a Microsoft Windows 3.1 suite that the bank was writing off over 10 to 15 years -- another indication of the institution's thrifty approach to information technology."
