Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:34:31 +0100 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in finance sector Message-ID: <504A3E37.5080702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120907201720.d77ef994.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <504A3525.3030208@gmail.com> <20120907201720.d77ef994.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/07/2012 07:17 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55:49 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? >> >> I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am >> trying to get the senior management to switch over from Linux as our >> current network is in shambles. > There is a good chance that networking equipment they use > (e. g. firewalls, routers, gateways, encryption appliances) > run FreeBSD internally, or a system derived from it and > turned into closed source (which the BSD license explicitely > allows). Probably you won't have a chance to verify this. > > For running actual services (not sure _what_ you are running), > FreeBSD might be as good as Linux, maybe even better. It can > also serve as storage solution or networking subsystem for > various kinds of "client OSes". > > Probably banks won't tell you what they run. Some run IBM > mainframe systems (which you can "recognize" when looking > at screens you're not supposed to look at). Any information > more precise than just my assumptions can only be provided > by insiders or service contractors who know the actual > infrastructures. Banks and financial firms tend to _not_ > publish what they run. > > > > Thanks for the response! I agree and understand this, hence I am not allowed to give away details of where I work etc.... but I can state that we are using an aging Linux (CentOS) based architecture for our systems and as the new boy in town have made a big campaign to run a mixture of FreeBSD and Sun SPARC systems as AIX seems to be a big pain in the assets to admin. Regards, Kaya
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