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Introducing Linux for Next Generation Mission Critical System Flexibility, Scalability and Robustness Are Key

Overview Shiga bank is planning to replace their existing mission critical systems before Jan. 2008. Their Information system, which is one component of their entire system, is configured using a mainframe and UNIX server. Shiga bank is now planning to configure an open platform environment by introducing a Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST Intel Itanium 2 mission critical IA server running Linux. Cost performance was key in addition to flexibility, scalability and robustness. Today, it is becoming more common to introduce open platforms as mission critical systems. With their largest consideration being stable operation, financial institutions have started introducing such open platforms.

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Publisher	Fujitsu	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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