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FAA open-source system saves $15 million
Today, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it has saved $15 million by migrating to an open-source platform for traffic flow management (TFM). The upgrade is part of a broader service-oriented architecture that will exchange TFM's old proprietary systems with Java, Web service, open source and Oracle applications.
The FAA switched from Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an open-source operating system that consolidated hardware and software installed in 1999.
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