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.

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Yahoo calendar has done this for a long time

[Ars-Fartsica]

By deploying Exchange, you can make scheduling a meeting as easy as sending an email with a time and having everyone click to confirm the meeting, which is then added to everyone's calendar. There is no solution like this without using Exchange (and I've looked.)

Yahoo mail lets you embed yahoo calender links easily...in fact you can embed the Yahoo calender links in any type of communication.

Come on, you haven't looked very hard - most of the web calendar programs allow you to mail "add this event to my calendar links"...in fact its so obvious you are nearly in troll territory.

"Wall Street Embraces Linux" HA HA HA

[kopper187]

Who came up with that title?
ONE firm starts using linux and suddenly the WHOLE financial industry has embraced it? LMAO!

It's like saying, "Govenment embraces Linux," after ONE local government body switches to linux.

If, perhaps, 30-40% of the industry switches over, we might then call it embraced. Until then, forget about it.

Re:Favorite quote

[Art Tatum]

I don't understand why you have a problem with her statement.

I don't know about the original poster but my problem with it is that there is no such thing as Intellectual Property. Copyright and Patent are artificial monopoly rights rather than property rights.

Still full of FUD

[jelle]

"Even more important, who is accountable? Linux is an amalgamation of the input of many companies and individual software engineers. So whom do you call when it breaks?"

Old moot. If you want accountability when something breaks, get a contract with a service company. Just call IBM, or SUN, or LinuxCare, or RedHat, or whichever company you want to use for service to your car^H^H^Hoperating system.

"Also, contrary to popular belief, Linux is not really "free." How are large-scale licensing agreements to be worked out?"

Suit-talk. You don't need to 'work out a licence agreement', you either accept the GPL and use Linux, or you don't accept it and don't use Linux.

Sure, the service company isn't free but nobody is forcing you to use a service company. In some companies, the internal IT department can very well be made capable to do all servicing themselves. Oil change? Brake pads? 'apt-get install oil task-brake' (yes in my dreams)

You want 'accountability'? Then you pay somebody for the right to blame them.

"Would I put an air traffic control system on Linux right now? No," says Carey,chief technology architect at Merrill.

I didn't know ML made air traffic control systems? What's the statement for then?