Re: Enquiry regarding Linux in Mission Critical situation

From: Quantum Leaper (leaper@bigfoot.com)
Date: 06/29/02 

From: "Quantum Leaper" <leaper@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:36:57 GMT

*** wrote:
> I am posting this information to find out the true extend of Linux on
> Mission Critical application.
>
> Several years ago, - 1997 to be exact, - on a conference I attended
> someone from RedHat gave a speech. In the speech, the guy commented on
> Linux had (at that time) achieved 99.9% uptime, and Red Hat was aiming
> for 99.99999% ( Seven-9s ) uptime before failure.
>
> Five years have passed, and I have been contacted by a local bank on
> some security issues - someone had hacked into the Microsoft Windows
> based machines, and created lots of havocs.
>
Must be a very small Bank, what one or two branches? Most banks around
here run Novell with Windows clients, atleast the biggest, I had a tour of
the IT department and I know my bank runs Novell also. Also most Banks have
their own IT departments. They are also very heavily regulated, at least
in the US, and they have to go though regular checkups on secruity.

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