5,000 Java Desktop System Licenses Sold to UK's Health System

Aug. 30, 2004 12:00 AM

Although exact details of the deployment are still being discussed, Sun has evidently sold 5,000 licenses for use of its Java Desktop System - StarOffice, GNOME and Mozilla - to the National Health Service, one of the UK's largest users of IT.

The NHS has been evaluating the JDS since the end of last year. 5,000 desktops is less than 1% of an estimated 800,000 desktop PCs used by the UK's health service - leaving 795,000 PCs still running Windows right now via a 3-year corporate licensing deal with Microsoft dating from October 2001.

"For Sun we are very excited and pleased that this has happened because we didn't have a viable desktop before," said Sun's UK director of public sector, Charles Andrews.

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