Open Source for mission-critical systems (slightly OT)

[F. Duran]

Let's add KeyWest Bank, E-Trade and Citigroup:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1822669,00.asp

People like it and feel safe when financial
institutions adopt something, since they are
technologically "conservative".

Fernando


--- billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:

>  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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