On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson 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..? > > But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and > holding customer accounts?
Why not? As an aside: what do you think telecom operators run their main billing systems on? UNIX... Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems? -- 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]"
