From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 18:34:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8CC106566B for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2682C8FC0C for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaak11 with SMTP id k11so1147775eaa.13 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UeT90tL2Q88q2FFaEDesLobwMoOAYG2uo0oMLRqqLcg=; b=B6J/nlUGG7q3hGpnHszmbzRH7PGe28YRxMcQLF8YOSpgOuwgCu6hm1emokh6i3Ya+S HSjb6dKPkXEMcWHh9N29cy3qJYyrkIW2UBtojMA4EktqZ6CVPSqqx9rkIUH57/zIShLP rkyxOXFaZrSKx6zJ+huDFmjRVpjEjdPtsbLiAf1xcKXHl95K5U1gjNgltju8ygbPp3ap Jw6skamcpmOIPbMM7G+TS6OJGKWUe5Lcs8BjA7I3MwKYhi16uU5PLuhT40pXoHyo3gL9 xEaDs37QlrydKjn1mI8yYg+HDspZTepDmViUDTnagZg+iRVeM4Ry3GdJgeNHkvS3g18o j/tA== Received: by 10.14.184.133 with SMTP id s5mr9481098eem.31.1347042879092; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sting-ray.optiplex-networks.com (81-178-2-118.dsl.pipex.com. [81.178.2.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h2sm16916650eeo.3.2012.09.07.11.34.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <504A3E37.5080702@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:34:31 +0100 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <504A3525.3030208@gmail.com> <20120907201720.d77ef994.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120907201720.d77ef994.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in finance sector X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:34:40 -0000 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