Chicago is migrating about 100 Sun Microsystems Inc Solaris servers to Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, moving systems such as vehicle registration, online job applications, restaurant inspections and ethics training. The city is already boasting savings of more than $250,000 resulting from the move.
The first application to be moved to Linux was the vehicle registration department’s City Stickers online renewal program, which tracks vehicle permits and enables users to purchase parking stickers online. In testing the City Clerk’s office found that Red Hat Enterprise Linux benchmarked 149.500 transactions per minute, compared to just 50,268 for Solaris.
It was estimated that the cost of replacing the previous Sun Enterprise 6500 servers would be $300,000 per server, while the chosen Hewlett-Packard Co servers weigh in at $50,000 each and are running Oracle Corp’s 9i Real Application Clusters or 10g RAC database servers and BEA Systems Inc’s WebLogic server. Further toddling town applications are now being moved to Red Hat.
