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Computing: Linux Cuts Costs for Finance Firm

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 24, 2005

[ Thanks to T Harris for this
link. ]

“City firm Close Premium Finance has migrated its main
transactional systems to Linux-based commodity hardware, cutting
£100,000 [US$191,100/€144,300] a year from its IT
costs.

“Since completing the switch in November, the company has
recorded just two minutes of downtime, and says the new systems are
performing about twice as fast as the high-end HP Alpha servers
that used to power its back-end system…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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