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VNUnet: Banco do Brasil Banks on Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 2, 2002

[ Thanks to David for this link.
]

“The European arm of Banco do Brasil, the largest bank in South
America, is switching from Windows to Linux to cut costs and
centralise support.

“The bank will consolidate 41 Windows NT servers in eight
European branches down to three IBM iSeries servers in London with
six remote IBM xSeries Intel servers.

“The long-term strategy is to phase out Windows completely.
Linux is also being used to replace Windows on desktops…”

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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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