[Gllug] MS Anti-trust

[Vincent AE Scott]

tet at accucard.com(tet at accucard.com)@Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:37:10PM +0000:
> 
> >IIRC most big banks insist on having the source code to all the OS's they
> >run.
> 
> I can say from personal experience that this isn't the case in the
> banks or financial institutions I've worked for. Perhaps for stuff
> that's deemed "mission critical" (i.e., equity trading screens etc.),
> then that's true. But not for back office settlement, swaps, or general
> infrastructure.

yeah, i was referring to mission critical platforms.  GS, and ML
definately have the source code in some departments.  certainly not all
tho.

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