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Financial Business's Linux Use Doubled in 2004
A beautiful mind writes "Linux usage got boosted in the financial sector thanks to mainstream suppliers like IBM and Sun from 27 percent last year to 58 percent in 2005, according to a report from financial technology researchers Finextra. In fact the growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past 12 months, say the researchers writing in the Financial Technology Strategies 2005 survey."
What's a kernel panic? I've heard about them, but never experienced one in 9 months.
Can you find such a page on HP's website for HPUX, or Sun's website for Solaris, or even IBM's website for AIX? Without looking for more than 30 seconds, I couldn't find any such pages. I did find a lot of stuff like IBM's linux page - case studies, customer testominals, white papers, etc.
I think you are reading too much into things, IBM's just marketing Linux the way everybody in the same market does. Plus, consider this - the only place that is going to toot the horn for Windows is Microsoft, or one of their paid shills. There are horns tooting for linux all over the place, "open source marketing" means different parties can handle different parts of the marketing effort - while microsoft's "propietary marketing" means they have to do it all themselves. Poor little micro...
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There are 2 sides to the financial use of linux. First is the front, the user interface like quicken. Second is the back, the database holding the financial data like oracle. Linux still has a long way to go in both.