24 Jul
2004
24 Jul
'04
9:08 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 20:53, Brent Frère wrote:
3) Community supported editions (such as Fedora, Debian, Gentoo...)
[ ... ]
... No customer will go for class 3 distros
FYI, the isp of your previous employer is putting in place a whole new
kind of banking plateform for a AAA bank (they are only 5 in the world
...) solely based on Debian.
We've just passed all the security tests from a well known belgian
security company and expect to go live sometimes before the end of the
year.
Convincing those people to get away from the comfort of commercial
support in favour of the security of knowing exactely what the code
does, wasn't that easy.
As expected they wanted originally the full commercial solution (Win +
CheckPoint firewalls), we then managed to convince them that RedHat +
CheckPoint was an equally viable solution.
In the end, after we explained them in *big details* who was behind
Debian and how their software was produced, tested and maintained, they
finally accepted a debian (stable obviously !)+ iptables solution.
In order to reassure themselves they insist on talking about "the Debian
Group" .... ;-) ... but we won't contradict them as this could be a big
step for the credibility of opensource (at least in Luxembourg).
a+
Parick.