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Wall Street Embraces Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-time-for-different-reasons dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Good news for Red Hat!! by tempest303 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    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.

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