eWeek has posted a lengthy interview with Lee Thompson, the VP of architecture at E-Trade. "So we're now at summer of 2002, and at this point, I realized, this is a much, much bigger phenomenon than simply taking [down the] dramatic cost of the data center, which it definitely was - millions and millions and millions of dollars came out of our expenses to run our facility.... However, something else was also going on, and I did a deep dive on open source at this particular time. I started running lots of different distros. I ended up running Gentoo. Personally, I run the Gentoo distro."

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