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New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)Posted May 16, 2008 3:36 UTC (Fri) by cjs (subscriber, #45842)Parent article: New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)
We were moving to Linux from Solaris, but have decided that Solaris 10 on x86 and AMD64 gives us more bank for the buck. Plus we only have to pay for the hardware, not the Red hat license. Plus a number of our applications have proven to be much more stable under Solaris AMD64 then Linux on HP DL hardware. Not starting a flame war, just saying what we have seen. That being said, all of our Quant Work is moving over to Linux 100%. I'm agnostic, I like Linux for some things and Solaris for others. 'Nuff Said.
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New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 3:53 UTC (Fri) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link] if you don't want to pay the RedHat license you have many other Linux options.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 4:30 UTC (Fri) by pbrutsch (guest, #4987) [Link] Mission critical stuff like this you DO NOT screw around with. If the vendor supports their package under AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Solaris, and nothing else, then those are what your choices are. That the package will work under CentOS, *BSD, etc is irrelevant. You don't want to be on the receiving end of the TPTB's wrath if the package breaks (for any reason) and vendor refuses to help you because you put in on CentOS 5 instead of RHEL5.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 4:30 UTC (Fri) by ebirdie (subscriber, #512) [Link] I'm not affiliated with Red Hat in anyway, still, I think that calling Red Hat's service subscriptions as "tax" is unfair or impropriate. By all means it isn't comparable in any degree to M$ offerings, which are very binding by nature and thus makes switching very hard or in worst cases practically impossible. This is the significant difference. Secondly I really wonder, how a financial organization can run any critical systems without payed support, either internal or external. Here the difference is that the organization can hire couple of Linux kernel hackers, but not the other way. In other words "tax" plays down to free beer -thinking, which is just wrong.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 5:40 UTC (Fri) by cjs (subscriber, #45842) [Link] True, I'm a big fan of Debian and Gentoo. But our vendors have either specified support for either Red Hat Linux or Solaris for the vast majority of our applications. No support for SuSE, Debian or any other distro. So Engineering has declared that RH Linux is THE supported standard for applications. Both internally and from our vendors, so..... Yea I know.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 7:14 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] Presumably you are paying Sun for Solaris support... In which case, what's the difference from installing RHEL and paying Red Hat for support? In both cases the OS is open source, you are paying for support not for a license. If you don't need Linux support you can install CentOS or various other options.
New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek) Posted May 16, 2008 12:51 UTC (Fri) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link] Of course you *are* paying for the equivalent Solaris software license; the cost is merely added to that of the Solaris AMD64 hardware you bought so you don't see it as a separate line item.
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