First National Bank of Omaha throws Sun Out 41
Grifter writes " First National Bank of Omaha said this week that it's nearing completion of a complete changeout of its distributed server infrastructure for a mainframe and blade-server architecture based on Linux. While only 80% complete, the move is already expected to save the company $1.8 million this year in operating expenses and another $9.6 million through 2011." More proof that banks know how to save money.
FNBO (Score:3, Informative)
I went through the rollout of a few software packages, and they always "just worked" right out of the gate. The uptime on all of the systems was just as impressive.
Re:Convert, but have to fight the sun engineers (Score:3, Informative)
The Sun servers are pretty good.
Sure, none of that says desktop, but in big computing centres those Sun server features are pretty damn useful.
Well, maybe you're thinking about the problem in a different way. You're thinking about the software. They're thinking about the hardware. It isn't the case that you don't know anything, but rather that you're focussed on problems that they don't think are important.
For what it's worth, I don't work for Sun. I think Linux is superb. I've been running Linux exclusively as my desktop for 13 years now. I even run Linux on this Apple PowerBook; no dualboot, just Linux. But I'm not so blinded as to ignore Sun servers and Solaris. They're both good too. There are some situations where I would never recommend Linux.