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Linux And the Enterprise Environment

Posted by Zonk on from the good-friends dept.

aword writes "Computerworld cites that private financial services sector have moved to Linux more than any other sector. This too is mostly on the server side only. Enterprisewide linux deployments for desktop users have been few and far between. From the article." From the article: "On the server side, perhaps no single industry has tested Linux's enterprise mettle more than the financial services sector. Companies were facing mounting pressure to cut costs at the turn of the millennium. The Internet bubble was about to burst. Prices were fluctuating wildly. Order volume and data traffic were spiking in the wake of the electronic trading boom. Revenue was not."

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  1. Re:Makes sense by The_Quinn · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...have chosen Lunix.

    Is this that the mythical version of Linux that runs the moon?
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  2. Startups? by caluml · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is the best way to start up a company that sells Linux support, etc to companies? Any ideas?

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  3. Linux font rendering sucks by bokel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a programmer, i'd really like to switch to an open source environment. As a strategy to switch, I tried to use a two screen, two computer setup using synergy (synergy2.sourceforge.net), Ubuntu and my old WinXP2. Synergy worked great and gave me the perfect illusion of a two screen computer. But font rendering on linux sucked. Even after installing some msfonts, the fonts on linux looked so different, that my eyes and my brain tilted and gave me a major headache. I'm not sure about the reason. Maybe some patents are in the way of perfect text on linux. If anybody knows, how i can come around this limitation of linux, i'd be more than happy to know. Cheers, Ralf.

  4. Imminent Death of Sun Microsystems by reporter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    One of the principal markets of Sun Microsystems has been financial services. During the DotCom Boom, finance companies on Wall Street purchased billions of dollars of Sun equipment.

    In the post-boom era, those same companies are now buying (mainly) x86 boxes and (secondarily) PowerPC servers running Linux. This phenomenon explains why Sun has failed to achieve profitability and revenue growth while both Dell and IBM have been doing well during the last 2 years of the economic recovery. IBM, especially, has been selling billions of dollars of Linux-powered boxes to finance companies.

    In 2000 and 2001, folks from the marketing and tech-marketing departments at Sun would spend hours each day on writing condemnations of IBM in SlashDot forums. In particular, one of the Sun talking (actually, "condemnation") points is that IBM supports multiple operating systems (OSes) whereas Sun supports only a single unified OS across all Sun platforms. Now, Sun supports 3 OSes: Solaris, Linux, and (gasp!) Windows. My. My. The times have changed.

    Now, where are these talking heads? They have been fired (or euphemistically, "laid off"), reprimanded, or demoted.

    For whom does the bell toll? It tolls for Sun.