London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438
BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"
Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks. (Score:3, Funny)
This just made my day. Now i can go back to bed.
Thanks!
Re:Not Windows' fault (Score:5, Funny)
This could easily have been the other way around, ditching Linux and a shit piece of trades software for Windows and a good bit of trades software
Yeah, but then it wouldn't have made Slashdot!
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Exchange Server (Score:5, Funny)
MOD PARENT DOWN!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two years worth of use (Score:2, Funny)
Given Microsoft's history of FUD, their habitual use of paid commentors, or even dead people writing letters, I think we should all sit back and enjoy the spin the paid apologists will have to go through to tell everyone how it wasn't MS's fault.
As an unpaid dead person writing a letter, let me the first to say BRAAAIIINNSSS....
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:2, Funny)
GP is probably right (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sure the LSE has no idea who's actually to blame, and is just dumping Windows/.NET because it's so easy to migrate off of.
Fun game (Score:4, Funny)
google for "London Stock Exchange site:microsoft.com" and fiddle around a bit looking at current vs. cached pages.
I bet if you interviewed Ballmer, he'd say something like "London has a Stock Exchane?!? I sure as fsck never heard of it"
Re:Similar at several European banks (Score:0, Funny)
Could have been worse. Apple would have said that they were design features.
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait... The internet has ads on it?
Re:Similar at several European banks (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft.
had to... (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's Microsoft vs GNU/Linux.
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:3, Funny)
management [...] suits
I see what you did there.
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
MS used to run lots of ads, including banner ads on slashdot, about how the london stock exchange chose windows over linux... Those ads stopped very quickly when they had the big outage a few months ago
Ah, so the MS ad servers were running Windows too?
Re:Similar at several European banks (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft.
I can't accept the implication that every boss[1] in the world is that incompetent.
Re:Using M$ as a moniker for Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
No, no. MS....FTW !
Correct. No MS, FTW!
Don't worry. C# and Mono will save the day (Score:1, Funny)
If the replacement system uses C# and Mono there is still hope for Microsoft!
Re:Not Windows' fault (Score:2, Funny)
... and they invested a lot of resources, both technical and marketing, into making this system run.
I didn't know you could use marketing to make systems run... =]
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:3, Funny)
TradElect is the Exchange's world-beating trading system. It brings unprecedented levels of performance, enhanced functionality and new services to our markets.
TradElect allows our customers to trade on one of the fastest, most reliable and technologically advanced equity markets in the world. After the performance upgrades introduced over the last year the trading system delivers and an average round-trip latency of around 4 milliseconds, and a trading Capacity of 18,000 orders/sec.
TradElect was part of the Exchange's Technology Roadmap (TRM) project.
Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange are currently working to integrate their systems in order to improve the performance, tradability and access across asset classes and markets for all of our customers.
They don't even mention stability. Outstanding.
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:3, Funny)
No, the ads were served by a rogue ad network running via a botnet that incidentially relied on LSE as largest cluster it had managed to infect. Microsoft wasn't really advised by their marketing people whom exactly are they employing to run their campaigns.