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.
Why can't people see? (Score:2, Interesting)
I think Sun would be wise to concentrate on hardware and selling services, like IBM.
Other banks? (Score:3, Interesting)
I know they recently deployed a huge web farm of Windows boxes for some business web site. It's not surprising they use Solaris, AIX, Windows, Netware, and zOS, but how much do they and other banks use Linux?
Anyone have first hand knowledge that they can share?