Financial services is a good example of an industry with a growing preference for Open-Source systems, and reliable Open-Source support. Driven by the exponential growth of market volumes and profit pressures all sectors of the industry have been turning to enterprise Open-Source and Intel and AMD standard servers as a way to dramatically improve performance and price benefits for mission critical applications such as risk applications, market data systems, equity options calculators etc. There are Open-Source solutions being deployed today to improve performance and cost savings in these areas among investment and retail banks, insurance specialists and others. Many are also migrating from Unix based systems to enterprise Open-Source such as the Red Hat stack to achieve enhanced application performance and lower total cost of ownership. To accelerate and enhance the adoption of Linux and Open-Source software, Linux Enterprise or Linux Community based systems LinuxIT now provides a free situation review and proposal service. This enables managers to benefit from free, independent and informed advice on how they can embrace Open-Source or extend its utilisation.
