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Unisys and SAS Unveil Linux-based Business Intelligence

[Posted October 21, 2004 by cook]

Unisys and the SAS Institute have announced an effort to bring business intelligence software to Linux. "Together, Unisys and SAS have offered high performance, scaleable end-to-end business intelligence and analytic solutions. Now, joint customers are able to take advantage of the flexibility and openness of the Linux operating system. "We're seeing heightened customer interest in Linux-based business intelligence solutions - particularly in the financial services industry," said Keith Collins, CTO of the SAS Institute. "Working with Unisys - a long-time price/performance leader among high-end Intel based systems - and its ES7000 family of servers, we're well poised to make Linux-based business intelligence a reality for our enterprise customers.""

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Posted Oct 22, 2004 8:26 UTC (Fri) by genius (guest, #19981) [Link]

Good news for Linux! btw, Windows virus writers must be hanged. I repeat, virus writers and hackers must be hanged, whether they are American, Russian, German, Retarded, etc, etc.

Unisys and SAS Unveil Linux-based Business Intelligence

Posted Oct 22, 2004 15:29 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

It seems a bit harsh to speak of hanging some bored kids whose amateurish code happened to find an easy target. Perhaps it would be more helpful to simply avoid the use of virus and worm-ridden OSes?

Unisys and SAS Unveil Linux-based Business Intelligence

Posted Oct 22, 2004 15:51 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

It's orthogonal concepts. Do you prefer train you are using to have working safety systems ? Of course you do. Did it make Ok for "bored kids" to put things on railroad to test these safety systems ? Probably not. The same is with OSes and "amateurish code from bored kids". Yes, it's true we should try to minimize possibilities of breakage. No, it does not make it Ok for kids to play with live systems.