E*Trade open source success story
What happens when a large company with high volume of trades is replacing all of its Sun Solaris-based servers with Linux-based x86 machines? E*Trade VP tells the story of implementing open source within the company and getting the competitive egde. From the article:
On the Solaris stack - a quarter million dollars a box, huge rows of machines - [Keynote measured the transaction] running about 8 to 9 seconds for us. After we were 100 percent on Linux, we were running, I believe, in the 4 to 5 seconds range. This is kind of a flexion point for me, technically.