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Do you know any bank or company that runs Oracle on Macs

No, but I do know a lot of developers that write Java code that runs on banking infrastructure, that do.

That doesn't bode well. Isn't a large part of the appeal of a Mac that everything "just works"? How do you suppose sysadmins will now feel if banking infrastructure apps no longer "just work" and will now require an additional JVM to be installed from elsewhere and kept up to date through separate channels from Apple's?

I'd actually be curious to know of any banks that use Mac servers.

I expect they'll get along just fine, the same way companies rely on, say, VPN software where updates are distributed from the vendor's website rather than the OS vendor's website.

it does sound more likely that a java dev on a mac gets a windows install as a second boot option than he changes the bank's infrastructure though :)

Or they could do their development on Windows or Linux in a VM. Or via VNC or the Windows equivalent.

At the last big Weblogic project I worked on, the (many) developers worked on Windows in VMs, on Windows boxes. One advantage being that we could use VM images pre-configured with Eclipse and whatnot set up just right.

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