OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Christopher Chan]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> If Microsoft ever manages to secure the server market (and therefore the
>> Internet, everything) with Windows server, you can kiss interoperability
>> for anything goodbye. Of course, this will never happen. The day when
>> 50% of all banks, governments, blah institution, run their entire
>> systems on Windows will never appear.
>>
>>     
>
> You are not familiar with banks, are you? What do you think they are
> running? Windows gives them something most Linux vendors cannot:
>   
/me shudders to think that his entire bank account are on Windows systems.


> pass-the-buck accountability. And it has been evoked in at least one
> prominent case to clear a small bank of liability. That does not mean
> that MS took the liability, rather, it means that the bank took all
> reasonable precautions. I think that the only Linux vendors who could
> offer a business liability are Novell and Red Hat, neither of which
> provides banking solutions.
>
>   

I doubt that banks run everything on Windows. Most likely Solaris or 
some other UNIX will be at the core. Any bank or stock exchange that 
converts fully to Windows and trumpets it deserves what they get.