From: Adam Flinton 

Mike '/m' wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2003 16:09:37 +0100, Adam Flinton 
> wrote:
>
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>>http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2003-02&article=wall_street
>>
>>It's about finance firms/banks going to linux...it must be scary reading
>>for the Sun (& possibly MS) Wall street/ City of London sales reps...
>>
>>One bit that rings true & which I also find humourous is:
>>
>>"It may be one of the great ironies that after spending years selling
>>the financial industry on its cross-platform Java development
>>environment, Sun may have ultimately created a Solaris to Linux
>>migration path. UBS's Steve Russell says that in his particular case,
>>"The thing that's enabling us to use and leverage Linux quickly is
>>Java." He explains, "Basically, if you move to Java or app servers,
>>you've done all the work to abstract the operating system. So, if you've
>>done all the development work, which is really the hard bit, you might
>>as well be on the cheapest computing platform."
>>
>>And in the case of Banco do Brasil, its Windows-based banking
>>application has been rewritten in Java, so now it can be run on any
>>operating system, including Linux."
>>
>>Yup....& Java/JDBC allows for DB'es to follow..
>
>
>
> What's not mentioned that is that it is my experience that Java runs much
> better on Linux than Solaris.
>

IME2 


& with the new threading coming to linux I can see this getting worse
for sun not better.

Adam

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