[lug] Opinions on E*Trade dumping Sun for Linux?

[Timothy C. Klein]

Yeah, I believe Oracle just said the same thing.  Sun better get cooking
on something in this game, or they could be facing hard times.

Tim

* Sean Reifschneider (jafo at tummy.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:08:46PM -0700, Lou Puls wrote:
> >Any opinions out there on E*Trade's decision to dump Sun servers for
> >Linux (via IBM help)?  I would be curious if there is much optimism that
> 
> Hmm, I see a trend here...  Amazon is also switching from Sun to Linux --
> they're expecting to save $19million the first year.
> 
> Sean
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