Wells Fargo Atms now Windows based and web-enabled!! FUDGE!

[griffinn]

It looks more like bad marketing than anything else.

No bank would be insane enough to really web-enable their internal systems. Their PR staff merely chose the wrong words ("web-enable", "WebATM") and that invited a round of Windows-bashing. All they are doing is perhaps (1) use a browser to display the front-end; (2) use XML and SOAP to communicate with the back-end, which just happens to be often used as web-related technologies.

With a properly secured internal environment and a restricted user interface (which the ATM is), it's relatively unimportant what the operating system of the front-end is. Given that, it's natural that corporate executives chose to adopt an OS that more people on the market will program for, i.e. Windows.

Want Linux / OpenBSD / <insert your favourite OS here> to be adopted in the corporate world? Train more programmers who are competent in those environments.