<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I think the project failed because te pointy head manager could not get to ms project gant charts, due to constant rebooting.<br>on a serious note, it be nice to find out why they changed, or what motivated them to do it , perhaps it those two magic buzz words...<br><br>credit crunch....<br><br>another nail in the coffin of the worse software company in history.<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 6/7/09, Rick Moynihan <i><rick.moynihan@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] London Stock Exchange Drops Windows Systems<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 11:30 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">2009/7/5 Iain Barnett <<a
ymailto="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=iainspeed@gmail.com">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> 2009/7/5 Rick Moynihan <<a ymailto="mailto:rick.moynihan@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rick.moynihan@gmail.com">rick.moynihan@gmail.com</a>><br>>><br>>> My first response was to this was, WTF they ran windows?! And then I<br>>> remembered Microsoft touting this in their FUD spreading get-the-facts<br>>> campaign against Linux.<br>>><br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.pcworld.in/india/news/7143439/Windows/London_Stock_Exchange_Drops_Windows_System" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.in/india/news/7143439/Windows/London_Stock_Exchange_Drops_Windows_System</a><br>>><br>>> Doubtless they'll soon be running Linux like every other big exchange.<br>>><br>>> R.<br>><br>> ...<br>> While the LSE denied that the collapse was TradElect's fault, they also<br>>
refused to explain what the problem really wa. Sources at the LSE tell me to<br>> this day that the problem was with TradElect.<br>> ...<br>><br>> Surely, without knowing the cause of the downtime or his sources, this<br>> counts as Linux FUD (ooh, Windows will break, can't tell you why it broke<br>> here, but my mates who run the nix servers at the LSE blame Windows... )<br>> *yawn*<br><br>I largely agree though still find the case interesting. Specifically<br>because Microsoft were so heavily involved in this very high profile<br>project, and were so keen to tout it as an example of the Window's<br>stack's superiority.<br><br>Obviously massive software projects such as this are prone to epic<br>amounts of FAIL, so it's likely as much a failure of project<br>management as anything else.... When projects like this, at their<br>inception set arbitrary requirements like being a pure MS/Windows<br>stack, you have PR
and marketing making what should be technical<br>decisions.<br><br>I guess my point is, that large systems/applications like this have<br>huge scalability requirements and are essentially always an exercise<br>in specialisation... There is no one-size fits all solution, and I<br>doubt very much the efficacy of any solution based on a single vendors<br>product line.<br><br>You might argue that FLOSS is in many ways just as bad, making<br>technical decisions on other arbitrary criteria (e.g. philosophy); and<br>this certainly occurs... However, the OSS stack is flexible enough to<br>incorporate specialisation at every layer with technologies from a<br>massive diversity of vendors... I'm betting the Linux based system<br>features a whole slew of specialised solutions, custom kernels and<br>likely some proprietary tech e.g. Oracle/DB2... It's for these<br>reason's that I think it sounds like a much better
alternative. i.e.<br>the technical decisions were likely made on the basis of<br>technical-merit over marketing.<br><br>Obviously this is just speculation... Hopefully the real reasons will<br>someday emerge (but I doubt it).<br><br>R.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>