China's biggest bank makes switch to Linux

[Collins Richey]

On 5/2/05, G.Waleed Kavalec <kavalec at gmail.com> wrote:
> The shift to Linux is driven by the banks' need for better software
> performance and better vendor support, said Nielse Jiang, an analyst
> at IDC in Beijing. Currently, most of these banks are running their
> applications on SCO Unix and they are looking to upgrade their
> systems. "In China, SCO Unix offers very weak support for customers;
> they have so few employees," he said.
> 

Who'd a thunk it - weak support from SCO <grin>.  My guess is that's
not limited to China.

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