China's biggest bank makes switch to Linux

[Kurt Wall]

On Monday 02 May 2005 22:24, Collins Richey enlightened us thusly:
> 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.

"SCOG Sues China! Film at 11:00"

;-)

K