From: Mike '/m' 

On Tue, 06 May 2003 16:09:37 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>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.

  /m

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