UBS, Others Juggle Linux, Solaris

OPEN SOURCE TRADING SYSTEMS

ZURICH--Swiss investment bank UBS Warburg is the latest major securities trading firm to cautiously embrace the Linux open-source operating system, while maintaining its ties to the Sun Microsystems Solaris environment.

The firm is no stranger to Linux--it reportedly has been testing NEC Solutions’ high-availability servers, which are available in Linux (TTW, Jan 27), and UBS apparently uses a Linux cluster to perform its market maker analysis (Waters, July 2002). Most recently, industry sources

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