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From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,
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On 18 Jan 2012 17:12, "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
> On 18 January 2012 17:06, Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> >> hackers@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian Elischer
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:56 AM
> >> To: Mark Felder
> >> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and l=
ifecycle
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Where I used to work (Devin Teske is now there) =A0we used to use the =
'stable'
> >> branch and rolll our own releases.
> >> the criticality of those systems was hard to over-emphasize. In 2005 w=
e worked
> >> out we processed 1.5 trillion dollars of transactions on those systems=
.
> >>
> >
> > Got new stats. In 2011 we ran $1.61T USD through FreeBSD.
> >
> > Separately, we ran another $0.05T USD through Linux in the same year.
> >
> > Kinda says something about, doesn't it?
>
> Sorry to burst your bubble but this is utterly meaningless statistic.
> You show nothing but correlation and in no way a causation. Back in
> the days when the UK banks ran ATMs, &c on Windows NT (I have no idea
> what they are running now) they went through a lot more "value" than
> that---means absolutely nothing...
>

Well.... I've not seen any BSOD'd cashpoints around for a while, so
I'd like to suggest they may have switched.

Chris