Unix/Linux contracts in banking

[MyUserName]

There seem to be loads of Linux contracts when I look. The trend seems to be for UI WPF/HMTL5 and for back end low latency processing Linux, C++ and C.

Although this is obviously not universal, I have even got a gig in MFC on Windows a year or two ago and I am sure that there are other exceptions,.

[portseven]

Will they also planning to replace Unix with Linux for running low latency trading apps like Murex etc ?

I am not sure how the banks will embrace cloud technologies, will they build private/hybrid clouds in future ?

Murex on Linux - Yes

Regards cloud, I think public clouds, banks would be adverse to, but private clouds yes. I am aware of at least one major bank experimenting with Openstack for dev workloads.

[BillHicksRIP]

I'm doing a stint for one of the big 3 banks. They've been going heavily down the private cloud route for the last 18 months with most new servers being either Win2008 or Red Hat VMWare images, depending on requirement, and any other OS is by exception only.