<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/5 Iain Barnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>Surely, without knowing the cause of the downtime or his sources, this counts as Linux FUD (ooh, Windows will break, can't tell you why it broke here, but my mates who run the nix servers at the LSE blame Windows... ) *yawn*<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Unfortunately pcworld reproduced an article by a well known and respected Linux journalist without including his links. Here is the original article with links:<br><br> <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform">http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform</a><br>
<br>Here is another article on the subject just to give some balance:<br><br><a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/59A7846C896BEA95CC2575E5007D8F33">http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/59A7846C896BEA95CC2575E5007D8F33</a><br>
<br>Gordon<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>The really interesting part, and hopefully backed up with far more fact, is the difference in performance. What is the cause for it? Unfortunately, he doesn't give any insight. What does the competitor use? Distro, database, languages, where he got the benchmarks from etc would be nice to know.</div>
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<br>Iain<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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