Online banking as a GNU/Linux selling point - again
Read more »Windows unsafe for online banking? Shopping?
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More and more experts are beginning to think that the best safe way to shop online or do online banking is to replace Windows with Linux.
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Have Banks Just Become Biggest Advocates of GNU/Linux?
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Transactions with Windows lead to disasters, which in turn advance GNU/Linux on the desktop
Read more »The Washinton Post Says Thumbs-Up to Linux for Banking
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In a recent post I wrote called "Linux has no marketing, but what if it did?" I made the point that with Microsoft's Windows 7 OS coming out on October 22nd, there will be a blitz of marketing around it, and noted that there never is any such blitz promoting Linux.
Read more »Bank group takes Linux migration a step at a time
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Metropolitan Bank Group is a large conglomerate in Illinois, comprising 10 banks and $3 billion in assets. As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth. The solution was a migration from Windows to Linux.
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Rural Ugandans bank on OSS-built system
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East African cellphone company, Simba Telecoms last week introduced an innovative local money transfer service in Uganda. The system, developed by Cape Town-based Jeshurun Consulting, was built using a variety of open source tools.
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3Com banks on open-source strategy
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Networking giant 3Com is banking on an open-source strategy to differentiate itself from the competition.
Read more »Canadian banks put the brakes on open source
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Linux-based and Unix-based apps are becoming commonplace in the enterprise, but some sectors are still holding out. IDC and Info-Tech explain why our financial institutions are reluctant to take the plunge. Also: a consultant tells us where they could be missing out
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