Open Source getting Foothold - IT Consolidation curve for the Bank

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Hi Friends,

This week is coming to end but, there is something that need to be digested by MICROSOFT and SUN fanatics for weekends.

IT Managers in Bank are going through challenging phase of cutting cost, meeting complienance, delivering applications for new business products, treats of business consolidation phase (M & A) and it's impact on IT and so on.

Few go by the beaten tracks but, some have eye and ears of smelling and seeing opportunities for the them. One of such opportunity was grabbed by Kenneth Kucera, division head of the Omaha-based bank's enterprise technology services.

Cut the long into short, Kenneth felt that, Sun does not offer technologies for running mission critical centeralised solutions and IT Manager need to evaluate offerings of IBM, HP and Unisys.

Kenneth bestowed his choice on IBM Zseries sServer 990 to replace 30 Sun Solaris Boxes and 70 IBM eServer Bladecenter replacing 560 Win-Tel Servers. I admire his decision and providing strong reasons for discouraging Microsoft and Sun as their products are suitable for desktop, mid and low level enterprise computing.

IBM scored becuase of end to end offerings i.e. Mainframe and Bladeserver hardware, IBM DB2 Database, IBM websphere suite of products for running mission critical applications like Online Banking. Sun and microsoft need to depend on other products to provide solution and eventually score more money. Last iceing on cake Capacity on Demand...

Long Live LINUX.... clustered Computing.... we can count birth of Utility computing in months rather than Years.... any takers of building COMPU HOUSE just as we have POWER HOUSE for rented services.