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FreeBSD in the Banking Industry
- Several of the largest commercial banks in the world are using FreeBSD in their processing of business to business transactions.
- Combined, these systems process about 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars per year and growing. They are using X11, Apache, jails, Perl, and a lot of other free software.
- Factors that help:
- Stability
- Source availability for helping understand and fix problems that occur (having the source to the system helps you understand why your application does not do what you expect)
- Good performance
- Easy hardware upgrade paths
- The application is spread over many servers. Need more power in one part? Add more FreeBSD boxes.
PC hardware sometimes is less than perfect, but at PC hardware prices, hot spares are practical.