The online brokerage is moving its computer systems over to IBM servers that run the operating system. In a statement, E*Trade cited cost savings and performance as reasons for switching to Linux.
E*Trade is replacing a number of its middleware servers based on Sun Solaris with IBM xSeries Intel servers running Linux, said Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive of IBM's server group in a speech at LinuxWorld. Zeitler said the new system would triple the number of customers E*Trade's systems can handle at any one time.
E*Trade did not say in its statement how many servers it is replacing. The company also did not say how much it is investing in the new system. -- Troy Wolverton and Stephen Shankland, Special to ZDNet News
