A Forrester report issued last month shows the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) is one of the top three strategically positioned OSes in the European financial services market.

Authored by Jost Hoppermann with Gene Leganza and Olesia Klevchuk assisting, the 16-page PDF's results are based on surveyed enterprise architects, IT planners, and strategists within financial services firms in 13 European countries.

One of the survey's key findings is an obvious distinction of OSes in this marketplace. Windows Server 2003 took the number one spot as the top strategic operating system by the surveyed financial services companies, followed by IBM z/OS. The Solaris OS came in third, moving up two positions from the last Forrester survey conducted in 2005.

"Sun Solaris has regained its 'historical' relevance in European financial services," the survey concludes.

"... I was so thrilled to read a report from Forrester that showed great progress in Europe - for open source broadly, and for Solaris and OpenSolaris specifically," Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz commented in his blog. "This bodes well for our capacity to grow, and the early return on what's been a long innovation cycle, not solely in features and performance, but in community, too."

The Forrester report also covers other "key insights" into the European financial services strategies, namely:

• Strategic application infrastructure is aligned with SOA

• Web services and business process management suites (BPMS) are the two most important strategic architecture elements

• .NET has significantly increased its strategic relevance in European financial services, although the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is still the overall winner

See Forrester's European Financial Services Architecture Shows Clear Strategic Direction for the complete report. [...read more...]

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