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Case
04-13-2002, 08:53 PM
"When the loss of about 1,000 computer servers in the World Trade Center attacks put Lehman Brothers in the market to buy millions of dollars of systems, it looked at a slightly unorthodox option: Linux, an operating system that is as noteworthy for its speed as for the fact that its source code is free."

"While Lehman has not yet signed a contract to install Linux, its testing showed that the system runs about twice as fast as its existing server system at roughly one-quarter of the cost, Ms. O'Connor said. "So where we needed 24, now we need 12 -- that's compelling."

It's good to see Linux beginning to be accepted by mainstream businesses

~Case

read entire article here (http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020403003064&query=lehman+linux)