"AT FINANCIAL SERVICES giant Merrill Lynch, CTO John McKinley is blazing a trail to boost productivity and enhance ROI with his strategy. And that trail has led him to pursue a company-wide deployment of Linux open-source software."
"CTOs of major enterprises such as Merrill Lynch, which claimed $21.8 billion in revenue in 2001, are adopting Linux in increasing numbers and scale. These chief technologists, spurred by the new reality of leaner, meaner IT budgets, cite savings in hardware and software costs as well as benefits of the operating system's stability and scalability. A 2002 Forrester Research survey found that of 286 IT decision-makers, 28 percent plan to use Linux for enterprise application servers in 2003 and 31 percent plan to use Linux for Web servers." And, "People are enthusiastic before they implement Linux and they are even more so after deploying Linux, which reverses the usual trend," says Dan Kuznetsky, program manager for the operating environments group at Framingham, Mass.-based research company IDC. "[IT leaders] find it not only will it do what it promises, but will do a lot more." http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ct/xml/03/01/13/030113ctlinux.xml Mark Post
