Wall Street Embraces Linux

Brian Stretch was among several who sent in this story about Merrill Lynch switching to Linux, this is interesting because it's actually companywide. Talks about Red Hat, Linux threatening Unix and so on.

Comments

Re:Good news for Red Hat!!

[tempest303]

Yep, $150 for that copy, and a huge pile of money for support contracts. You really think Merrill Lynch is going to just "go it alone" in their migration? Not a chance. Red Hat is getting megabucks from this transaction, I'd bet. (That, and I'd bet they'll score quite a large number of sales of their "Advanced Server" product from this, too: http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press _advserver.html)

Looking through the posting history for the "Reality" "Master", I'm starting to wonder if he wasn't layed off from a company whose product was made obsolete by some weekend hacker's OSS project, and he's damn bitter about it.

Re:DIY Business?

[Graymalkin]

Six replies and not one fucker has said anything remotely meaningful. How dare I say anything against the grain of Linux for it is gospel from the mount! Out of Linus's ass it comes for your worship! You fucking short bus riding dimwits. The original comment was about how shitty closed source software is, like OSS is somehow magically better than that it tries so hard to mimic in functionality. You can't just throw caution to the wind and not have a CYA plan on the back burner if your software or hardware goes batshit. ML would definitely get sued for gross negligence if they ran some mission critical system on software written by people not even necessarily qualified to write such software that lost a billion dollar account. What fucking world do you live in?