[Gllug] London Stock Exchange moves to Linux

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 15 Feb, Jason Clifford wrote:

> 
> Unix/Linux systems are fairly cheap to run in the long term but those
> support and consultancy costs tend, in large companies, to reflect a
> large amount of mitigation of risk cost as well as actual cost. Hence
> you'll find a similar number of sysadmin/support staff on any kind of
> large system.
> 

   I suppose it would provide basic employment for FOSS developers.

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