Hi ppl, I am a Compsci BE student from Mumbai.I am doing my final yr = project in Bank Network & Security Sys both for Core Banking Solutions [Finacle-Infosys] as well as Total Branch Automation products.Being a linux= enthusiast, I know that linux provides excellent solutions to the banking = sector in terms of compatibility, consiceness, network-security and TCO. Bu= t I would like to receive some feedback from this experienced group, esp fr= om ppl who have tried using linux in Banking sys, about the advantages of u= sing open source products over std commercial software.Links to web-pages/a= rticles about deployment of linux in banking sectors will also be very valu= able. Thanks Sameer
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Hi Sameer,
I m System Admin for an American Financial Group, We have all of our major products are on HP-UX and Sun Solaris. They are planning to test Linux and Oracle combination but dont have any plans to implement Linux into production envoirnment in near future. Here they have a policy that they should be able to catch hold of some one if any thing goes wrong, in case of Solaris they have contract with Sun and similar is case with HP. They are not finding any similar solution for Linux. So surely implementation is big question mark here.I know we have largest community to support us but who make persoms with grey hairs understand the same. Yes, I know ICICI bank and NSE.IT have many of projects live on Linux servers and yes they r even satified with its performance.
Regards, -Sampat.
Sameer Niphadkar spniphadkar@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi ppl, I am a Compsci BE student from Mumbai.I am doing my final yr = project in Bank Network & Security Sys both for Core Banking Solutions [Finacle-Infosys] as well as Total Branch Automation products.Being a linux= enthusiast, I know that linux provides excellent solutions to the banking = sector in terms of compatibility, consiceness, network-security and TCO. Bu= t I would like to receive some feedback from this experienced group, esp fr= om ppl who have tried using linux in Banking sys, about the advantages of u= sing open source products over std commercial software.Links to web-pages/a= rticles about deployment of linux in banking sectors will also be very valu= able. Thanks Sameer
Ps: Interested ppl = may find & reply to my questionair on Network-Security
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Sampat Dharmesh wrote:
Hi Sameer,
I m System Admin for an American Financial Group, We have all of our major products are on HP-UX and Sun Solaris. They are planning to test Linux and Oracle combination but dont have any plans to implement Linux into production envoirnment in near future. Here they have a policy that they should be able to catch hold of some one if any thing goes wrong, in case of Solaris they have contract with Sun and similar is case with HP. They are not finding any similar solution for Linux. So surely implementation is big question mark here.I know we have largest community to support us but who make persoms with grey hairs understand the same. Yes, I know ICICI bank and NSE.IT have many of projects live on Linux servers and yes they r even satified with its performance.Regards, -Sampat.
On 04/12/03 06:43 -0800, Sampat Dharmesh wrote:
Here they have a policy that they should be able to catch hold ofsome one if any thing goes wrong, in case of Solaris they have contract with Sun and similar is case with HP. They are not finding any similar solution for Linux. So surely implementation is big question mark here.I know we have largest community to support us but who make persoms with grey hairs understand the same.
Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE (now Novell), IBM, HP, Sun, ........
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On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:34, Sameer Niphadkar wrote:
Hi ppl, I am a Compsci BE student from Mumbai.I am doing my final yr = project in Bank Network & Security Sys both for Core Banking Solutions [Finacle-Infosys] as well as Total Branch Automation products.Being a
Can you tell us the actual work you are going to do on this project? AFAIK, the Finacle CBS solution from Infosys has a Solaris backend (+ Oracle DB) and the traffic runs on SSL. So in effect, any more security you are going to add to the system is going to be a generic network security solution. Many of the TBA packages by various software firms are either - 1. Based on netware using IPX 2. Based on a terminals using terminal emulation to connect to a server within a branch 3. Standalone computers having standalone applications.
linux= enthusiast, I know that linux provides excellent solutions to the banking = sector in terms of compatibility, consiceness, network-security and TCO. Bu= t I would like to receive some feedback from this experienced group, esp fr= om ppl who have tried using linux in Banking sys, about the advantages of u= sing open source products over std commercial software.Links to web-pages/a= rticles about deployment of linux in banking sectors will also be very valu= able.
While I haven't been following the banking sector closely, I think Linux is mostly used on simple things like Web services, Mail, perimeter security. I haven't heard of Linux being actually used on systems carrying out transactions. The onus is probably on the software developer on the platform of her choice. I haven't heard about a software company using Linux for Banking applications. Anyone, please correct if I am wrong.
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