Open Source for mission-critical systems (slightly OT)

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

 Goldman and Sach also has a couple of thousand linux servers. TheNew York Stock exchange moved (if they have completed) to linux for the settlement system.
Generally any place where proprietary UNIX is used with inhouse software, linux is a better choice for the system.

For the record: db/2, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase all provide linux database servers, so migrating is usually fairly painless (normally a recompile, unless your software is using some weird part of the OS your moving from). In one case I know where it wasn't painless.

Bill

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:26:50PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On June 1, 2005 02:50 pm, F. Duran wrote:
> 
> > - financial institutions (don't remember the name of a
> > particular bank but there is at least one) & stock
> > market organization (was it NASDAQ?)
> 
> You're probably thinking about Morgan Stanley, I believe 6,000+ servers 
> running highly modified Redhat with AFS.  I believe there are other Wall 
> Street companies using Linux as well.
> 
> I suspect that you'd be hard to find any financial institution that could 
> survive if all the OSS software went poof (OSS meaning not just Linux).
> 
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