Computerworld: Europe: Financial Services Companies Lead the Charge to Linux

“Open-source zealots may continue to play a part in instigating
the spread of Linux across the European continent, nearly 14 years
after Linus Torvalds hatched the operating system in Finland. But
private corporations and public-sector users in Europe typically
cite pragmatic reasons for taking up the open-source operating
system. They point to price and performance benefits. They want
freedom to swap out hardware. They find the operating system
reliable. They like its flexibility.

“‘It was not that we just wanted to do open-source. We had to
find a way to protect our investment in network computing,’ says
Matthias Strelow, a technical project manager at LVM Insurance in
Munster, Germany…”

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