eWeek: E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2006

“To say that E-Trade Financial has embraced open source is
putting it mildly. The financial services firm’s open-source
journey began in 2001, when it replaced several of its Sun
Microsystems Solaris-based servers with IBM x86 Linux-based
systems.

“E-Trade saved millions of dollars annually in the process, and
has extended its open-source interests to middleware and even the
use of the community development process as a model for its own
internal development…”

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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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