'So far, Member States have, first and foremost, asked merchant and research ships to deploy the 2, 000 drifting robots and buoys needed to maintain the network', explains Mathieu Belbeoch of the JCOMM in situ Observing PlatformSupport Centre.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.