美国邮政全线转移至Linux环境

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在经济低迷和经济衰退的前提下，美国邮政管理局已经决定把1300台邮包追踪管理系统服务器，转移至Linux环境下。

据悉，美国邮政将放弃之前的Sun solaris系统，转移至HP的Linux环境下。

此举的优势在于原先基于COBOL语言（面向商业通用语言）编写的代码，在转移至Linux时不用完全重写，转移成本较低。

通过向标准化开源软件转移，美国邮政管理局可以减低运营成本，增加系统可处理邮件数量。美国邮政局目前每天从各地邮局接收超过4000万件信件包裹。

系统有1,300个服务器，每天处理 4 千万个交易，而且开销比原来基于Solaris的系统少了。整个迁移用了一年。

　　USPS没有说迁移到底能节省多少，只是说“相当大”(significant)。"


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"Postal Service information technology officials have upgraded the 15-year-old, mainframe-based system to handle more transactions and lower the cost of operating the system.

"The work to upgrade PTS is part of a larger plan to standardize on the open-source and less expensive Linux operating system, said John Byrne, manager of application development and head of USPS�Integrated Business Solutions Centers.

"The service is moving 1,300 Sun Solaris midrange servers to a Hewlett-Packard Linux environment. USPS is using Novell抯 SUSE Linux on the mainframe and distributed computing platforms to forge greater interoperability between the two environments, Byrne said."

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中国邮政早就这么干了

虽然邮政的服务实在不敢恭维