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January 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)

E-trade on Open Source

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eWeek is running a great interview with E-trade VP of Architecture Lee Thompson on how they brought open source into their enormous computing environment.

To say that E-Trade Financial has embraced open source is putting it mildly. The financial services firm's open-source journey began in 2001, when it replaced several of its Sun Microsystems Solaris-based servers with IBM x86 Linux-based systems.

E-Trade saved millions of dollars annually in the process, and has extended its open-source interests to middleware and even the use of the community development process as a model for its own internal development.

E-trade CIO Josh Levine retired earlier this year, but I was fortunate to have him speak at an event back in June 2005. Really interesting stuff they have been doing.

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on January 30, 2006 10:38 AM

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