City firms take cautious steps to Linux

The operating system Windows 2000 server is deployed company-wide in 48% of financial services organisations that responded to the Computer Weekly survey at CityIT.

And 45% of respondents have deployed Windows 2000 on desktops across their company.

Of those responding to the survey, more than half said they were deploying Linux and open source software. Only 3% said open source software was fully deployed throughout the organisation, a further 3% said it was fully deployed in one or more departments while 19% were evaluating open source.

To what extent have you implemented open source?

• Not at all 49%
• Evaluation 19%
• Pilot projects 11%
• Used in some internet applications (eg web server) 9%
• Used in some non-internet focused applications 8%
• Fully deployed in one or more departments 3%
• Fully deployed throughout the organisation 3%

Source: City IT survey