Hard Times May Boost Linux in Financial Services (HPCwire)
HPCwire talks
with Inna Kuznetsova, director of IBM's Linux Strategy at the High
Performance Linux on Wall Street conference in New York. "
Kuznetsova: Linux has unique attributes that help to improve savings. You cannot only reduce the costs with often lower rates but also eliminate CALs to avoid upgrade penalties. Paying for a subscription instead of a license provides for a higher degree of flexibility should the customer decide to reduce resources, as often happens during an economic downturn. Standardizing on Linux reduces the number of skilled resources needed to manage multiple environments -- and at the same time, a customer can select the best hardware platform for a particular workload. Also, during mergers, Linux, because it runs on the broadest set of hardware platforms, often becomes the "common denominator," providing for a streamlined integration."