Article from IT-Analysis.com (English)

"[Scott] Handy states that Wall Street firms have taken to Linux in droves, with such companies as Morgan Stanley, Citibank, eTrade, Merrill Lynch and the New York Stock Exchange using it. In Europe, financial services firms such as HSBC and Deutsche Bank are deploying Linux, and it is also making inroads into government and retail verticals."

The article also states that IBM's $1 billion investment in Linux two years ago has already resulted in $1 billion in hardware, software, and service revenues last year.


IBM has moved from a totally proprietary software model to the Open Source model, and evidently stands to gain much more in the coming years by being a leader. The fact that such a high profile international company has been so successful speaks volumes for Linux. Remember the saying, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"? We are getting very near to the point where that could be applied to Linux.