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Banks Want to Swim with Penguins
Wired News ^
| 3 February 2003
| Michelle Delio
Posted on 02/03/2003 10:18:48 AM PST by ShadowAce
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:09:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The Bulls and the Bears may soon be standing on the unemployment line.
Tux the penguin, Linux's beloved mascot, is rapidly becoming the financial services industry's totem animal of choice. In fact, it seems that the only steadily rising statistic on Wall Street these days is the number of companies moving to open-source systems.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Technical
KEYWORDS: banking; banks; linux; reliable; secure
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posted on
02/03/2003 10:18:48 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; TechJunkYard; Knitebane; Dominic Harr; Bush2000; B Knotts
Mission Critical Ping
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posted on
02/03/2003 10:20:18 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Good news! I can't say I'm suprised, though. The adoption of open source by business is inevitable. It's a simple matter of economics.
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posted on
02/03/2003 10:49:40 AM PST
by
B Knotts
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/03/2003 11:19:31 AM PST
by
fishtank
To: ShadowAce
Powder..patch..Ball FIRE!
Calling Bush2000, Calling Bush2000
To: ShadowAce
TANSTAAFL
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posted on
02/03/2003 11:57:41 AM PST
by
Noumenon
To: Noumenon
Absolutely--but what does that have to do with this?
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posted on
02/03/2003 12:04:56 PM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: BallandPowder; All
Smeagol2000 surely will be here soon.
Nasty little Linuxes, The master will throttle them, yessss, preciousssss, choke off their air supply . . .
English translation: "Mommy, make the mean penguin go away! It's scaring me!"
To: ShadowAce
Hmm...you would think that after the SQL Slammer Worm, these guys might even get more inspired.
Go penguin!
To: fishtank
Where's Kevin?
To: ShadowAce
"Linux is reliable -- it never crashes, it's secure."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaah, it never crashes! Thanks for the daily laugh, Linux sycophants! You're a riot!
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posted on
02/03/2003 12:50:58 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Bush2000
Oh, I'm sure he was speaking in relative terms... like, "as opposed to our old Windows crap, which crashed regularly". ;-)
Man, it's been in beta since October, and they got no negative feedback! How many projects have you been involved in where you got that kind of reaction from the users?
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: TechJunkYard
Man, it's been in beta since October, and they got no negative feedback! How many projects have you been involved in where you got that kind of reaction from the users?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! No negative feedback implies that they didn't test the software sufficiently. What a bunch of aquamaroons! Thanks for the laughs! You guys are a riot! Linux doesn't crash! WOOOHOOOOO! My sides, my sides... stop, stop... no more comedy, please!!!
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:10:19 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: On the Road to Serfdom
Helloooooooooo.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:40:23 PM PST
by
fishtank
To: On the Road to Serfdom
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posted on
02/04/2003 7:19:03 AM PST
by
fishtank
To: Bush2000
My sides, my sides... stop, stop... no more comedy, please!!! First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
Good to see that we've got the ignoring and laughing stages out of the way.
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: Knitebane
What's not to laugh at? "Linux doesn't crash?!?" Even you -- a diehard ABMer Linux ideologue -- can't seriously be selling that sewage-laced Kool-Aid...
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:50:17 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: guaguanco
Leave it to the Linux guys to promote Japan's economy over our own...
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:51:02 PM PST
by
Bush2000
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