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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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