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Linux Comes to Wall Street (eWeek)

Linux Comes to Wall Street (eWeek)

Posted Apr 28, 2005 15:58 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
Parent article: Linux Comes to Wall Street (eWeek)

It gets old after awhile to hear one clueless pundit after another talk about how linux has mainly been used for file and print services. That's never been true - linux has historically been used most often as an internet web server - and also to provide mail and dns services. A minor nit, I know, but it gets monotonous hearing the same old imaginary facts after awhile.

It's also nothing new that Linux has moved into the data center - wall street firms have been using linux for years, perhaps that fact has only just now attracted the attention of this pundit...


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Linux Comes to Wall Street (eWeek)

Posted Apr 28, 2005 18:22 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Don't forget big computationally intensive in-house apps that you don't need an ISV's permission to move from one OS to another. Those have been quietly getting moved from Solaris to Linux for years.

Linux Comes to Wall Street (eWeek)

Posted Apr 28, 2005 19:27 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

I think that the "file and print services" meme comes from the fact that there is an implied "Instead of Windows" phrase attached to it. Sure, Linux/Unix has had the Web, DNS etc. market forever. But file and print services on "Windows Networks" have been handled, to a great extent, by Windows servers. Linux running file and print services instead of Windows is still notable, whereas Linux running web services is just a given.


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