Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Mar 24 16:15:06 CDT 2014
Hi Peter and Arthur: It is finally official, India has converting all its ATMs to a Linux Distro call Boss: http://bosslinux.in So you can easily download it and test it out on a VD. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:07:33 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Financial Institutions Migrating from XP to Linux On 2014-03-23 8:29 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi Arthur: > > Good observation. I would expect the use of ATMs in India is only going to go up...a billion people should have three times that of the US...say around a million plus ATMs. Many don't have bank accounts. Better to compare the size of the middle classes? PB ----- > > Aside: Why does a dictatorship like China continues to flourish even after a decade of stellar growth and a democracy like India languishes in the economic cellar. Apparently, democracy is not good for business? > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Sunday, 23 March, 2014 4:21:21 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Financial Institutions Migrating from XP to Linux > > Jim, > > The thing that caught my eye is that India can make do with a mere 115,000 > ATMs. Given the size of its population, that's a lot of people per ATM. The > lineups must be lengthy. > > A. > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Arthur: >> >> And to add to the list... >> >> http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/indian-banks-switching-to-linux-rather.html >> >> Jim >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com