On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote.. > > > >>Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now. > >> > >>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts? > > > > > >Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms. > >You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't > >think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..? > > > > > >>I hope it's not my bank.. > > > > > >It might very well be your bank.. > > > I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix > boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments. > > remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still > used by a lot of banks..
Sure. But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying high-value financial data in the banking world. What we forgot: there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like dealing rooms and ATM networks etc. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
