Patch Backlash, Jan 03, 2004

"We got hit hard by the rash of viruses that came along back in August--both in the medical school system and in the university hospital system," Pan says. Ultimately, he switched his personal work system over to Linux. "The lack of accountability is one reason I switched away from using Microsoft products."

Webmaster's note: Misleading headline. This is mostly a bio piece on CTO Kevin Lloyd. Skip to page 3 for the Linux statements.

With Lloyd in charge of the bank's technical strategy, Linux is obviously something he is keeping a close eye on, although not for the desktop, having recently signed the EDS desktop deal for Microsoft Windows and Office 2003 for Barclays' 41,000 users.

"It's not on the desktop in this organisation. I understand the arguments, I understand the availability of it, but it's not in this organisation and I suspect it would be some time before you would see it at scale and I don't think you'd ever see it, certainly not in my perspective, on the desktop," he says. "If you do a fully absorbed cost analysis my perspective is that there isn't that degree of clear water between one equation and the other, not if you've got a well run environment. Believe me, we've done the numbers."

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