Securities Industry News – Linux: Big With the Bulge Brackets

I gave a presentation at 8a this morning at a Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) event, and SIN had a story on their website by time I was back at my desk.  Talk about real-time reporting.  Linux is big on the server side for Wall Street and will only get bigger.  An excerpt:

The biggest firms – aka, bulge bracket firms – have the technical prowess to use Linux and adapt applications to run on it, McPartland indicated in an address to the Wall Street Technology Association at the Westin Times Square hotel in New York.

“Linux is free and it doesn’t crash,” McPartland said, in summation.

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