Octave Orgeron <unixcons...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Speaking as someone who has worked extensively in the financial services
> world,
> I can tell you that performance is key. You'd be surprised at how many
> mid-range
> to high-end SPARC servers are in banks today. And I'm not talking about
> E10ks,
> I'm talking about 6900-25Ks and M5000-M9000s. A lot of these banks also use
> the
> T-series servers for web and app. Why do they use these systems? Because they
> scale, perform extremely well, and are a hell of a lot cheaper than
> AIX/POWER.
> Not to mention that finding good AIX people is like finding someone who knows
> how to run VMS these days. While Linux has eaten away at the "low hanging
IBM did change their strategy with AIX and enters universities.....
Oracle on the other side did cause disconcertment with the recent strategy
changes.
Jörg
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