Australian
gaming giant Tattersalls has dumped Linux in a $43 million project to
streamline its multi-state Maxgaming poker machine
business.
According to Australian IT, the open source operating
system is used in 4,000 venues throughout Queensland, NSW and the Northern
Territory.
Chief information officer Stephen Lawrie said a new platform
built around Microsoft products would be developed instead.
He said recent
mergers with interstate gaming operations had left Maxgaming with a
complicated set of software licenses and made it difficult to run four
platforms at once.
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