FreeBSD in finance sector
Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am trying to get the senior management to switch over from Linux as our current network is in shambles. Thanks for any responses. Regards, Kaya ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD in finance sector
On 09/07/2012 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? We use FreeBSD for our lockbox/remittance processing system. We have non-disclosure agreements which prevent me from mentioning bank names, but the most prominent players use our system running FreeBSD. Last year our systems processed well over 1.6 trillion dollars in financial transactions. We do have a few smaller systems running Linux, however all but a fairly negligible amount of that dollar total was processed by systems running FreeBSD. Dave -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD in finance sector
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55:49 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am trying to get the senior management to switch over from Linux as our current network is in shambles. There is a good chance that networking equipment they use (e. g. firewalls, routers, gateways, encryption appliances) run FreeBSD internally, or a system derived from it and turned into closed source (which the BSD license explicitely allows). Probably you won't have a chance to verify this. For running actual services (not sure _what_ you are running), FreeBSD might be as good as Linux, maybe even better. It can also serve as storage solution or networking subsystem for various kinds of client OSes. Probably banks won't tell you what they run. Some run IBM mainframe systems (which you can recognize when looking at screens you're not supposed to look at). Any information more precise than just my assumptions can only be provided by insiders or service contractors who know the actual infrastructures. Banks and financial firms tend to _not_ publish what they run. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD in finance sector
On 09/07/2012 07:17 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55:49 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am trying to get the senior management to switch over from Linux as our current network is in shambles. There is a good chance that networking equipment they use (e. g. firewalls, routers, gateways, encryption appliances) run FreeBSD internally, or a system derived from it and turned into closed source (which the BSD license explicitely allows). Probably you won't have a chance to verify this. For running actual services (not sure _what_ you are running), FreeBSD might be as good as Linux, maybe even better. It can also serve as storage solution or networking subsystem for various kinds of client OSes. Probably banks won't tell you what they run. Some run IBM mainframe systems (which you can recognize when looking at screens you're not supposed to look at). Any information more precise than just my assumptions can only be provided by insiders or service contractors who know the actual infrastructures. Banks and financial firms tend to _not_ publish what they run. Thanks for the response! I agree and understand this, hence I am not allowed to give away details of where I work etc but I can state that we are using an aging Linux (CentOS) based architecture for our systems and as the new boy in town have made a big campaign to run a mixture of FreeBSD and Sun SPARC systems as AIX seems to be a big pain in the assets to admin. Regards, Kaya ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
