OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 09:03:08 UTC 2009


>> You are not familiar with banks, are you? What do you think they are
>> running? Windows gives them something most Linux vendors cannot:
>>
> /me shudders to think that his entire bank account are on Windows systems.
>

No worries, it's not exactly XP Cracked Edition that the banks are
running. Most is NT or Server, and hardened at that. Microsoft's
consumer products are garbage, but their commercial offerings are
rather decent.

> I doubt that banks run everything on Windows. Most likely Solaris or
> some other UNIX will be at the core. Any bank or stock exchange that
> converts fully to Windows and trumpets it deserves what they get.
>

Ask them. Not the teller, find your way to the IT department.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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