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Originally Posted by hicksd8

Solaris on the other hand is Unix, owned by Oracle and is a big boys operating system, commercially supported, and well capable of running a big financial institution such as a bank. You wouldn't run an operating system in a bank without full commercial support services (unless you are mad).

I worked most of my professional career as an AIX admin for banks (they seem to just love IBM) and i can tell you that they use Linux in abundance. For instance, my last client (one of the biggest german banks) had ~400 AIX systems, some few Solaris and HP-UX systems (together maybe a dozen) and ~1000 Linux systems (mostly SLES) in their data centre.

For SAP HANA you are even forcced to use Linux (IIRC RHEL, SLES or Ubuntu), because even on IBMs pSeries it doesn't run on anything else.

I wouldn't invest any time in learning HP-UX because i think it is dying a slow death (mostly because HP abandoned it after Intels plan to discontinue the Itanium), but other commercial UNIXes (that means mostly AIX and Solaris) are still going strong and it seems reasonable to learn them.

As of the threads title: the question IMHO is not so much "what is good" but "what will survuve on the market". I.e. with video, Betamax was good but VHS survived. If you invested money in the worse but surviving techology VHS you were better off in the long run, sad to say.

I hope this helps.

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ktoblzcheck

KTOBLZCHECK(1)						      General Commands Manual						    KTOBLZCHECK(1)

NAME

       ktoblzcheck - Check Account and BLZ (bank routing code)

SYNOPSIS

       ktoblzcheck [--returncode] [--file=<datafile>] <bank-id> <account-id>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ktoblzcheck application.

       ktoblzcheck  is	a program that will check a given account and blz for the bank being valid and the account being valid using some checksum
       calculations, if supported for that particular bank. The output is the clear-text name of the bank specified by <bank-id>, and whether  the
       given <account-id> is a valid account number at this bank.

OPTIONS

       <bank-id>
	      This is the Bankleitzahl (bank routing id), actually it is the account-id of that particular bank at the Deutsche Bundesbank.

       <account-id>
	      This  is the account number you wish to verify. If the checksum method of the bank specified by the <bank-id> is supported, you will
	      get the account-id verified, i.e. if it is a valid account-id at that particular bank.

       --returncode
	      If given, the result is returned via the returncode and no output on the	terminal.  The	following  returncodes	are  possible:	0:
	      account and bank are ok 1: unknown, e.g. checksum not implemented or such 2: account and/or bank not ok 3: bank not found

       --file=<datafile>
	      Specifies the file with the bankdata. This file can be obtained via the internet from the Deutsche Bundesbank on address
	      http://www.bundesbank.de/zahlungsverkehr/zahlungsverkehr_bankleitzahlen_download.php
	      Beware! This page is in German only.

BUGS

       No  bugs  are  known  at  this  time.  Only certain checksum algorythms are supported as of now, so please don't complain if you always get
       "unknown" as return value.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jens Gecius <jens@gecius.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Authors  of  ktoblzcheck  are  Fabian  Kaiser
       <fabian@openhbci.de> and Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>.

								  August 3, 2003						    KTOBLZCHECK(1)