Sir Finkus writes:
"As Microsoft begins to end support for Windows XP, many ATM operators are investigating Linux as an alternative. Microsoft will no longer provide updates for the operating system, which currently powers nearly 95% of the world's ATMs.
Operators say that they'd like to be able to upgrade their machines and operating system at the same time. They are also hampered by the high cost of upgrading machines and regulatory requirements. With the lifetime of a typical ATM being 10-15 years, companies would value more flexible upgrade schedules."
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday March 24 2014, @06:05PM
I would imagine they're paying significant support fees as well. As I keep telling people when proprietary gets purchased over open-source even when the open source is clearly superior and has available support: "Open source doesn't buy golf outings or vacations for the purchasing people".
(Score: 1) by Tork on Monday March 24 2014, @06:14PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 5, Interesting) by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @06:26PM
"Open source doesn't buy golf outings or vacations for the purchasing people."
This, a thousand times, this. At work, our rack full of video transcoding servers were about to go end-of-life, and the vendor was drooling over the pile of cache we'd need for their newer hardware/software specific-high-end-GPU-optimised hot-mess of a replacement. Meanwhile we wrote up some scripts using ffmpeg/ffmbc that would do the job better on our existing hardware quite nicely.
I kid you not that the hardest part wasn't development, deployment, or testing, but getting the suits to sign off on it, and this in the face of six-figures of cost savings the first year alone.