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[News] Bank Of Canada Moves to Linux

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|     "The Bank of Canada is slowly moving off of Unix into an environment
| that will see its economic analysts using Windows PCs to create models
| running on a Linux-based cluster.
| 
|     "Four analytical departments at the Ottawa-based Crown corporation
| are affected by the project, which also includes Linux compute servers
| running in parallel and a host OS for VMWare. The Bank of Canada has
| traditionally been a Sun Microsystems shop, according to senior
| technical analyst Christian Boutin, but the need to make use of
| specialized financial applications pushed the organization towards
| open source..." 
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=39200&cid=2

Also see:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=581 [ Linux displacing Solaris? ]

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