China's biggest bank makes switch to Linux

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 04:24, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

Nope. We used UnixWare 7.1.3 in our product - the last SCO version we
used. That was a few years ago. They were at 7.1.4 for a few years, and
I think 7.1.5 just came out. Note that there are few (none?) device
drivers added between these point releases. I do feel that UnixWare is a
solid Unix implementation - but OSs are a moving target. The release is
not just the OS. It is the whole shebang. That means, for example, no
new SAMBA or APACHE in a few years. At least not officially in the OS.
That is simply bad support. And this is not just 'free' updates. Even if
you buy new - that is what you get...

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