____/ William Poaster on Friday 04 January 2008 18:56 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 04 January 2008 14:16 :
>> \____
>>
>>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You'd think that Banks, of all people, would steer clear of Windows and
>>>> use something secure, like Linux.
>>>
>>> Increasingly they do; I've done a bit of consulting work in the
>>> banking industry a few years ago and they were rolling out Java/Linux
>>> servers for middleware apps and edge of net servers. Still running
>>> most of the database back end stuff on big iron with DB2 and so on,
>>> even some legacy COBOL layered behind a SOA abstraction layer, but
>>> plenty of Linux running newer infrastructure. You won't find a
>>> whole lot of press releases about it though... banks tend to be
>>> rather quiet about the shape of their internal systems, for obvious
>>> reasons.
>>
>> This turns out to be a Barclays Web site, but not the online banking one.
>> They really need to fix this fast because it's terrible PR for them.
>> Lesson to be learned here: if you hire Windows-centric web developers, you
>> lose heaps of very angry customers and receive bad press (loss or
>> prospective customers). I was with Barclays for about 3 months back in
>> 2000. I had to dump them for NatWest because they made a mistake, after
>> mistake, after mistake, after mistake and it was the last straw after just
>> a few months... it was embarrassing for them and the HSBC guy actually
>> told me (secretly) that NatWest had the better offer/service.
>>
> As I've said, I have no trouble logging in to my Barclay's account with
> Firefox or Epiphany. And I do not have any kind of spoofing extension
> running in either browser.
Well, either way it's at the front page of Digg.com now. Barclays will probably
hate me for this, but let's call it even.
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