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# From: Ian Langnickel <ian.langnickel@god.de>
<define-tag pagetitle>G.O.D. Gesellschaft für Organisation und Datenverarbeitung mbH, Germany</define-tag>
<define-tag webpage>https://www.god.de/</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::users
<p>
We have migrated our 8 servers from various commercial Linux distributions
and OpenBSD versions to Debian. These systems do fileserver tasks (Samba),
groupware (Lotus Domino/Notes), development backend (Subversion), Apache2,
LDAP, SquirrelMail, database backend (DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL),
virtualization (hostsystem for currently 12 virtual machines running inside
VMware Workstation), firewalling and traffic accounting, monitoring (Nagios,
MRTG, smartmontools, AIDE, Snort), backup services (rsync) and so on.
</p>
<p>
I decided to use Debian because I have some years experience in using it.
Package management is superior, administration is really easy because of the
excellent structure inside /etc and updates always work like a charm, even
dist-upgrades do, and all systems run stable as rock even with average system
loads around 7.0 24/7/365 on some machines. Incomparable to other
distributions we had running before, now there is more time for the nice
things in life.
We plan to migrate several workstations from Windows XP Pro to Debian Sarge
as well, main applications will be Java development (Eclipse and Websphere,
several database servers). But there is no timeline yet, so my workstation is
currently the only one running Sid.
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