Javier Henderson wrote:
Wilko Bulte wrote:
[ ... ]
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?
Some of 'em, sure. They tended to use a lot of Sun Exxxx or HP Apollo 9000
boxen. They also used Unix boxes a lot for trading system/forecasting, often
using inhouse software development and a bit of outside consulting. At one
point, SBC had over 3000 NeXT systems there.
[ I worked at a company which developed and deployed NEXTSTEP software for the
various big banks in Chicago, FNBC, SBC, UBS, and the CBX (commodity exchange).
ITS, run by a guy called Ted Shelton. ]
--
-Chuck
PS: You'd be surprised at how many ATMs and POS machines are running IBM's
OS/2....
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