Lors du combat Web 2.0 [2] avec le copain Mohamed Kahlain de Desjardins, il disait que les banques n’utilisaient pas l’open source puisqu’’ils ne voulaient pas se taper les 200 000 blogues pour débuguer le système si cela n’allait pas. Il disait aussi que les technos Web2 tels qu’Ajax, n’avaient pas encore été jugés suffisamment sécuritaires pour être utilisés dans des contextes bancaires ou la sécurité est primordiale.
Des nouvelles pour toi cher Mohamed. Aux USA, plusieurs des plus grosses banques mondiales utilisent les logiciels open source tel que MuleSource [3] et Alfresco [4].
They’re providing core infrastructure for several major US banks’ core system operations. Not because it’s open source, per se, but because it’s actually better.
At Alfresco, we get the same thing:
Each hour, an international retail bank routes its faxed and Web-based trade confirmation and transaction orders-workflow comprising 25,000 data factors-through its new enterprise content management system. Another non-U.S. firm, this one a global investment bank, uses the same solution for trafficking all content from its Web portal.
That an ECM solution manages disparately sourced data for storage, day-to-day operations, CRM analytics and regulatory compliance isn’t noteworthy, except this ECM system from UK-based software firm Alfresco is built on open source technology. A bank entrusting open source for enterprise document functions, which normally falls to products from full-shop proprietary vendors, is the head-turner.
The banks, which were not disclosed by Alfresco, are examples of institutions that increasingly are drawn to open source solutions for front-end and middleware IT functions. Instead of paying for seat licenses of a commercial ECM product, these firms get Alfresco’s product free and pay only for support services and development assistance under a dual licensing model
Via Infoworld [5]