On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:55:16PM +0200, Max Laier wrote.. > 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. > > So how is this relevant for freebsd-stable@ ? ... Thanks!
Not at all. :-P -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"