N7: Case Study:How CitiStreet Improved Speed and Availability and Lowered Costs by moving to Linux, JBoss and Apache

Who/what is CitiStreet » Retirement and benefit recordkeeping » Joint venture of State Street and Citigroup » 12 million participants Challenges/opportunities of the hardware pricing model of firms like HP and IBM » Significant savings in both acquisition and maintenance costs by going to Intel/AMD vs. proprietary chip, but that means Linux as opposed to HP-UX or AIX » Better performance and availability at lower costs Our experience » Increased throughput » Enhanced availability » Excellent support Conclusion : Some use of open source is the prudent approach for large financial services applications

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