[ 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…”