:Financial Group Trusts Linux Platform to Protect Customers' Assets
Financial Group Trusts Linux Platform to Protect Customers' Assets Jan 12, 2008, 13 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3935 reads) (Other stories by Tina Gasperson)
"Western & Southern Financial Group provides insurance and investment advice for businesses and consumers. The conservative nature of the business means that Western & Southern needed the most secure and reliable infrastructure available. After years of running the Sybase database on Sun's Solaris servers, IT Systems Manager Paul Jackson recognized the need to get the platform 'up to speed.' When he checked on the cost to replace the proprietary hardware and operating system the company had relied on for so long, it was so expensive that he began looking for another solution..."