Wall Street Applies Linux Leverage

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NEW YORK--Merrill Lynch chief technology officer (CTO) John McKinley is among an influential group of Wall Street technologists who have embraced Linux and put their server suppliers on notice that the days of piling applications on banks of high-end, high-priced proprietary machines are numbered.

Increasingly, farms of "commodity" Intel-based hardware and the irrepressible mainframe have been making inroads into what has historically been the territory of server makers such as Sun Microsystems (

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