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Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall
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| NYSE Euronext and its family of exchanges which include the NYSE, Euronext,
| Liffe, Alternext and NYSE Arca Options, operating in the US and Europe, now
| run on Red Hat Linux and look to Red Hat for support and services. Put it
| another way, over 4000 public companies and over $141 billion in daily stock
| transactions depend on Linux. The Chicago Mercantile exchange at last count
| traded 1.403 Billion contracts valued at $827 trillion annually.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/07/09/meet-the-people-who-have-trillions-riding-on-linux-this-fall/
Recent:
Wall Street still likes Linux, but for new reasons
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| A few years ago, financial services firms tended to point to low cost and
| customizability of components as their major reasons for turning to Linux and
| open source. But at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street show today,
| panelists devoted more of their remarks to topics such as multi-OS server
| consolidation on mainframes and creating realtime Linux applications for PC
| servers, aptly reflecting the growing complexity of software environments in
| financial firms and elsewhere.
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| Speaking with BetaNews later, however, Graves said that, in his opinion, the
| main benefit of Linux right now is that Linux appllications will run --
| either virtualized, or not -- on virtually any hardware system, including X86
| PCs and mainframes.
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| Credit Suisse's Bubba, meanwhile, views the main benefit of Linux as lying in
| its wealth of real-time applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Wall_Street_still_likes_Linux_but_for_new_reasons/1207083805
Related:
Linux steps up to power NZ Stock Exchange
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| The New Zealand Stock Exchange is moving to a Linux platform for its
| settlement and clearing system, replacing its existing HP NonStop platform
| and applications in order to reduce cost and increase flexibility.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/F586239BCCA7593FCC2573F00001488E
HP Linux servers bolster NYSE trading app
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| "We favor Linux for what we do. We don't want to be beholden to any one
| [hardware or software] supplier, even if it is very good. We want the freedom
| to be vendor-independent, so Linux was a good choice," said Rubinow.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1285921,00.html
Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
The Ministry of Finance in FYROM Uses Debian on Its Servers - ...and saves a
lot of money!
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| Besides the forementioned services, the solution allowed single sign on,
| Quality of Service management and analysis with more cost savings. From a
| total of 370 desktop computers, 170 are using open source software like the
| OpenOffice.org office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser and PDFCreator.
| Linux is being used in two departments of the Ministry, in IT and Treasury.
| This operating system is also run on other servers, for web, intranet, proxy,
| web security and content filtering services, and much more.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Ministry-of-Finance-in-FYROM-Uses-Debian-On-Its-Servers-79738.shtml
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