Linked by David Adams on Tue 16th Aug 2011 16:47 UTC
When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux. As late as 2007, Wall Street exchanges were still largely run on Unix . . . Over the past few years however, Linux has crept into this market, showing up first in ancillary systems and then running a few core exchanges.
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RE[5]: Linux is killing
by Kebabbert on Thu 18th Aug 2011 10:23
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RE[5]: Linux is killing
by JAlexoid on Thu 18th Aug 2011 13:37
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You can blame us for not having proper drivers for Linux...
But my point was not about what is better, my point is that Linux is a major competitor to AIX and zOS. Specially zOS, less so to AIX.
PS: They still get to pay those humongous license fees on mainframes. Since it does not matter what OS runs, licensing is done for hardware and clock cycles...
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You can blame us for not having proper drivers for Linux...
And that's the main reason why LoP is considered a bit of a joke.
But my point was not about what is better, my point is that Linux is a major competitor to AIX and zOS. Specially zOS, less so to AIX.
I'm afraid that from where I'm standing, as in the actual implementation of LoP, that just isn't the case. As for the Mainfraim, it's only ever installed in an LPAR. In no way have I ever heard of zLinux being installed as the main OS. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's even possible.
PS: They still get to pay those humongous license fees on mainframes. Since it does not matter what OS runs, licensing is done for hardware and clock cycles...
I know about the licensing costs of the hardware and clock cycles but I'm not talking about the OS, I'm talking about the open source software that can be run on a Mainfraim dues to zLinux. Websphere for zOS costs way more to license than it does on open platforms.
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I don't know about system z, I'm no sys-prog, but I do know about LoP (Linux on POWER) and compared to AIX, it's a joke. No support for software RAID boot partitions, buggy SAN mulipath drivers and every time I've seen an installation, it's needed to be heavily optimized due to it having lower (and sometimes much lower) I/O performance than AIX. Bad I/O on a POWER system is an oxymoron.
Sure, LoP is OK I guess as a test LPAR but as you've got all the open source server software you need already compiled for AIX, why the hell would you want to add an extra support contract for what is arguably a less powerful OS for your expensive POWER system when you get AIX support added in already?
As for system Z, my sys-prog mates think it's great cause they can implement open source server software without the humongous license fees but again, that's not because zLinux is somehow better than zOS.