[dba-Tech] Financial Institutions Migrating from XP to Linux

Hi Arthur:

Note: Just an amusing aside, that many (most if not all?) of the XP OSs running on the ATMs have not been patched or updated for years anyway...but don't tell anyone, no one is supposed to know that. ;-)

Making the XP OS obsolete will finally get these guys off the collective a****.
 
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 9:53:44 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Financial Institutions Migrating from XP to Linux

ComputerWorld has an interesting piece on this subject. Aside from the cost
of the software (there are 400K ATMs in the US alone), there is the fact
that the institutions are at the mercy of Microsoft's obsolescence
deadline, currently April 8. It is estimated that 95% of the ATMs in the
world run XP currently.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247096/ATM_operators_eye_Linux_as_alternative_to_Windows_XP
.

-- 
Arthur
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