[Dominic Harr]

"The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes."

I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but no way was this due to the shift to Linux.

At least, there's no way I can imagine it could be. I've got tools that run on both Solaris and Linux, and there's not really that big a difference.

It's got to be the hardware.

The $50k servers were probably two years old or more, and were replaced with brand-new boxen.

I do think Linux is good, don't get me wrong. But this is a *highly* misleading intro.

[ShadowAce]

I agree. The OS doesn't have much to do with calculations, anyway. It's mostly hardware. I'll take 40 new boxes over 32 ancient ones any day of the week.

[Bush2000]

I do think Linux is good, don't get me wrong. But this is a *highly* misleading intro.

For once, we agree. Leave it to journalists to confuse even simple scenarios...