E-Trade Financial saved $13 million annually, realized a boost in performance and changed the way it thinks about development by moving from a Sun Solaris infrastructure built up during the stock market boom to an open-source stack running on x86-based IBM hardware.
Building on work it began in late 2001, the financial services company has moved its open-source migration up the stack and is now taking the lessons it has learned through its experience with open source to optimize internal development processes.
Those lessons will be critical as eTrade assimilates acquisitions and continues to grow to compete with rivals such as Ameritrade.
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So, is Sun going to make come back ever or the company will be divided into pieces and liquated over time?
