[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Westpac is considering Linux as a future operating system for
back-end systems at branches and even its mainframes.“Services manager Glenn Patrick says the bank has decided not to
take the thin-client approach for the present, opting for Windows
2000 PCs on broadband connections for counter staff. Earlier this
year, there were suggestions it would be moving in the thin-client
direction…“Current back-end systems are based on Microsoft software while
the mainframes carry big Cobol/DB2 applications running on IBM
mainframe OSes…”