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

Mental image:

[RasputinAXP]

CSFB's Yatko was just as direct. "We don't treat Linux as a toy. We've got real business problems that we need to solve."

I've all of a sudden got this mental picture of a little squeaky Tux toy. You know, the ones that your dog would just LOVE to chew on for a while before swallowing them.

Re:Mental image:

[prismatic]

okay, i'm a geek. i saw the word "be" capitalized in your sentence (becasue its the first word in the sentence), and my immediate thought was in reference to BeOS. i guess my mind sees Be = BeOS, and be = verb

Re:Not safe enough for Air Traffic Control???

[qwerpoiu]

The Blue Sky of Death!!

Re:Linux not really "free"?

[EnVisiCrypt]

Quoth JWZ: Linux is only free if your time isn't worth anything...

Damn those pesky business men and the concept of time equalling money. Damn them all.

Re:Linux not really "free"?

[Anonymous DWord]

I hate that fucking quotation. If I never heard it again, it would be too soon. It's not like I boot into Windows, say "Computer, write the year-end fiscal report," and go golfing for the afternoon.

Good news for Red Hat!!

[Reality Master 101]

Thousands of copies getting potentially used means revenues of, what, about $150 for that single copy?

Marge, CALL MY BROKER AND BUY RED HAT! BUY BUY BUY!!

Re:Linux not really "free"?

[cpeterso]

you forgot the last step:

time = money
knowledge = power
work = power * time
work = knowledge * money
money = work / knowledge
QED: as knowledge --> 0, money --> infinity

Re:Linux not really "free"?

[grnbrg]

It's not like I boot into Windows, say "Computer, write the year-end fiscal report," and go golfing for the afternoon.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. :) grnbrg

Re:Linux not really "free"?

[Anonymous Coward]

time = money
girls = time * money
girls = money^2
money = root of all evil
girls = evil.

Year End Fiscals

[Petersko]

It's not like I boot into Windows, say "Computer, write the year-end fiscal report," and go golfing for the afternoon.

Thankfully, you can do just that with our new project, "Year End Fiscals" for linux. Currently in Alpha, version 0.000121001, it'll allow you to simply type "fiscals -yearend" (at a minimum) and walk away while it generates your documents.

Try it out. Features 1,2,3,5,7-22 and 24-492 inclusive have yet to be implemented, but it will properly accept the first of our command line parameters (of which 132 are planned).

We don't have a completed plan, so if anybody can lend a hand, we'd appreciate it. We need coders, project managers, and economists.

At some point in the distant future, when things are working perfectly, we'll also need documentation specialists. Oh, wait - I've been informed that the coders can write the documentation as they go.

Oh yeah - no reliability, no support.

Note: tongue firmly in cheek!

Re:Year End Fiscals

[JabberWokky]

Try it out. Features 1,2,3,5,7-22 and 24-492 inclusive have yet to be implemented

Sounds like a Microsoft release. Features 3, 28 and 103 will be implemented in the SE version, but the stability drops, 35 new security holes are introduced and if you've installed service packs 3 or 6, then it causes Outlook to fail when installed.

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Evan