[Ilugc] [OT]34, 115 Indian PSU bank branches are at risk due to their reliance on Windows XP
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:09:59 +0530
Greetings,
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:09 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN
<arunpalaniappan.mek at gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is the RIGHT TIME to make people migrate....
Not again to Windows but, to Linux!!
I have done IS audit of couple of co-operative banks.
Even the mention of Linux scares them for some of the core banking
applications run only on windows.
Before migrating to even a newer windows version, the vendosr has to
do a hell of a lot of testing.
The core banking applications are fairly well tested.
and many are two-tier applications i.e. client server.
Some provide web interface as a part of netbanking.
But not all will bite the bullet.
Mind you that to my knowledge, none of the core banking apps have been
tested with a linux client.
To summarise, it may take banks about 5-8 years to migrate if ever
they decide to.
And bankers are by far the most conservative business people.
my two paise worth.
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Regards,
Rajagopal
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