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

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 23 22:09:52 CDT 2014


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.
>
> 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?

In lots of asian countries (eg S Korea, Japan, Indonesia), explosive 
growth got started with long periods of dictatorship before any moves 
toward democracy.

PB


>
> 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
>>
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