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European banks embrace the Linux system (Globe and Mail)

[Posted August 19, 2004 by corbet]

The Globe and Mail looks at adoption of Linux by European banks. "And HSBC's decision is not all about dollars. 'Although we're not convinced that Linux is cheaper in terms of total cost of ownership, it does offer us more control and flexibility than Windows, due to its open architecture, for example in terms of security,' Mr. Lashua said."

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Posted Aug 19, 2004 16:11 UTC (Thu) by juanjux (guest, #11652) [Link]

Not-So-Spam ;)

The spanish BBVA Bank (Banco Francés in south america) even has a Linux and free-software based sub-company of his E-Goberning division where I work (Gobernalia Global Net, http://www.municipia.com) offering a wide array of IT solutions (always using free software, usually Linux based) to public administrations (portals, training, network deploying, some other IT contracts like the big PISTA Aulas-Project, this one with Telefonica: http://www.pistaaulas.org/).