There's quite a backstory to this. A Microsoft Solutions Provider was employed to setup the original systems. Not surprisingly, everything used the latest and greatest MS technologies.
It was a horrible failure. Slow and unreliable. If I've "got the facts" :) straight, the LSE looked around and saw a Linux-based exchange system running in Switzerland that they thought would do a better job. So they kicked out Microsoft and friends and brought in the Linux stuff to replace it. >From the get-go it was an improvement. It wasn't all tea and crumpets, though. About a week or 2 back, they were having some network-related problems, but evidently that's all sorted out now. On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 11:38 -0400, Rafael Troncoso wrote: > It looks Linux is in a good shape :-) > > http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3244936/london-stock-exchange-smashes-world-record-trade-speed-with-linux > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
