On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:47:54PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >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... > > I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS.
Most run Tru64. Not a lot run VMS. We had stock exchanges run VMS. Like the Dutch Stock Exchange and the Australian one for example. > >Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems? > > A lot. > > -jav > > --- end of quoted text --- -- 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]"
