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First National Bank of Omaha throws Sun Out

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the penguin-is-in dept.

Grifter writes " First National Bank of Omaha said this week that it's nearing completion of a complete changeout of its distributed server infrastructure for a mainframe and blade-server architecture based on Linux. While only 80% complete, the move is already expected to save the company $1.8 million this year in operating expenses and another $9.6 million through 2011." More proof that banks know how to save money.

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  1. Why can't people see? by doc+modulo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    One day, Free and Open source(TM) software is going to be 80% of software out there in the world (give or take a little).

    I think Sun would be wise to concentrate on hardware and selling services, like IBM.

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    - -- Truth addict for life.
  2. Other banks? by thule · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how many other banks are doing this, but don't shout it from the rooftops. My understanding is that Washington Mutual has a Linux team. It would be interesting to find out how extensively they are using or planning to use Linux.

    I know they recently deployed a huge web farm of Windows boxes for some business web site. It's not surprising they use Solaris, AIX, Windows, Netware, and zOS, but how much do they and other banks use Linux?

    Anyone have first hand knowledge that they can share?