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From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:55:16PM +0200, Max Laier wrote..
> On Friday 17 June 2005 23:47, Javier Henderson wrote:
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote..
> > >
> > >>Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >>>On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote..
> > >>>
> > >>>>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > >>>>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and
> > >>>>> now.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts?
> > >>>
> > >>>Yes.  Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms.
> > >>>You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes.  You don't
> > >>>think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..?
> > >>
> > >>But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and
> > >>holding customer accounts?
> > >
> > > Why not?   As an aside:  what do you think telecom operators run their
> > > main billing systems on?  UNIX...
> >
> > I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS.
> >
> > > Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems?
> >
> > A lot.
> 
> So how is this relevant for freebsd-stable@ ? ... Thanks!

Not at all. :-P

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org