U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol and had to be converted for Linux — a less expensive option than rewriting it altogether.

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