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| Time: 16:47 EST/21:47 GMT | News Source: VNUNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Thanks Scott. "The European arm of Banco do Brasil, the largest bank in South America, is switching from Windows to Linux to cut costs and centralise support. The bank will consolidate 41 Windows NT servers in eight European branches down to three IBM iSeries servers in London with six remote IBM xSeries Intel servers. The long-term strategy is to phase out Windows completely. Linux is also being used to replace Windows on desktops." | ||
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| #1 By 655 (4.63.49.237) at 12/1/2002 6:32:29 PM |
| Isn't the economy of Brazil in less than stellar shape? |
| #2 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 12/1/2002 9:06:46 PM |
| five, are you saying that we have a free market? Perhaps you've missed the news for the past five years, you know, the Microsoft anit-trust case. |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 12/1/2002 11:02:56 PM |
| fivenorth - Linux offers no competition to Microsoft. Judge Jackson said so. |
| #4 By 143 (207.223.68.145) at 12/1/2002 11:25:10 PM |
| On your marks… Get set… Let the virus attacks commence on the fool that tries to get off cheap! |
| #5 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 12/2/2002 12:50:10 AM |
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Wow, leave it to the Linux zealots to compare selling operating systems with selling drugs.
baffling, truly baffling. |
| #6 By 1643 (131.107.3.84) at 12/2/2002 2:11:11 AM |
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fivenorth...are you telling me that MS products are inferior to Linux? Cause I can disagree with everyone of your claims (except freedom to MODIFY the source, but why the heck would I want to do that and possibly break compat with all my other systems…MS is a better developer organization than I)
If your saying that IBM wrote this paper (it wreaks of IBM style PR) to try to switch some Linux enthusiasts from windows...they probably already running it. But if you can say the linux can match the ease of use, hardware detection and configuration (plug and play), support (PSS, although not perfect, is pretty darn good), application compatibility, application developers, developer resources (MSDN rocks!!), integration strategy with other applications, multimedia, performance (gnome and most xwindow systems SUCK...which is short for Slow, Uninviting, Configuration challenged Kludge), accessibility options, adding printers, sharing files, wireless configuration, integrated browser, lower TCO to deploy and run, etc. etc. etc...I am going to disagree with you big time. But, If you're suggesting that linux is fun to play with and learn the inards of your PC for geeks like us, I agree. Also, if you're so in favor of free market and comptietion...why can't MS raise its prices? For gosh sakes, they haven't changed much in like 15 years. But I sure wouldn't trust this bank with my money, no way! |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/2/2002 11:52:52 AM |
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parker - That's what you get for actually reading the article. :)
So the big win for Linux is that Banco de Brasil had to deploy VMWare because Linux can't duplicate the functionality of Windows? :) |
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