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To: GVTucker who wrote (142821)9/5/2001 4:30:43 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
GV, >Back in the olden days, that meant Tandem, with few alternatives. Nowadays, there are a few more choices. Interestingly, Linux is starting to make inroads in financial services, primarily because of the reliability issue.

Thanks for the article. Trends like below, from the article, can help sell more Intel chips. I imagine there are more Linux applications running on Intel chips than on any other kind:

But cost benefit alone isn't enough to persuade most staid financial institutions to make the switch to Linux. When millions of transactions need to be computed per second, CIOs look for reliability and scalability above everything else. Prast said that working with Linux has convinced him it can meet his performance needs, and he plans to replace IBM Unix-based RS/6000 servers with Linux.

Tony
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