[Gllug] London Stock Exchange moves to Linux

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 21:48 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    Agreed that there will be high development costs whatever the OS, but do
> we not argue that using a good Unix compatible system should be more
> reliable and cost far less in the long run?

Not particularly as the real costs are not enormously different - those
being support, consultancy and training. 

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.

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