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Visible Breakthrough: Redmayne-Bentley Prepares for the Future With Unisys and Open Source

Overview Redmayne-Bentley is a regionally based stockbroking firm in the UK that was able to grow and prosper during a period of rapid consolidation in the late 1980s because of its innovative business model. Redmayne-Bentley migrated core applications from a UNIX based platform to an Open Source platform based on Linux and Unisys ES7000 enterprise servers - a move made seamless thanks to Unisys technology and delivery excellence.

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Publisher	Unisys	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2007	Downloads	12
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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