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Story: Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement

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To clarify HSBC's problems.

I found this interesting article on www.computerweekly.com/218593

"The main reason for choosing Windows was that the development and operations staff, as well as the traders, were more familiar with Windows. Also, the main grid applications HSBC used - Sophis, Summit and Microsoft Excel - ran mainly on Windows."

"Some 95% of the production grid (HSBC also runs test grids) runs on Windows, but 5% - a couple of hundred servers - run on Linux servers."

"HSBC had to do a lot of the development work, writing an application programming interface (API) to allow its risk calculation program to run on the grid."

"These machines run a risk management application that runs only on Linux."

To summarize, HSBC had to do a lot of development work on Linux, which they weren't familiar with, couldn't function on the grid normally, only accounted for 5% or less of their infrastructure, and only ran a risk management application.

I would think, yes. It would probably cost them more than running Linux than Windows. This was never an attack on Linux.

If all goes well, the Novell-Microsoft partnership will fix this.

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