[dundee] London Stock Exchange Drops Windows Systems

[gordon dunlop]

2009/7/5 Iain Barnett <iainspeed at gmail.com>

>
>
> 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*
>

Unfortunately pcworld reproduced an article by a well known and respected
Linux journalist without including his links. Here is the original article
with links:


http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform

Here is another article on the subject just to give some balance:

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/59A7846C896BEA95CC2575E5007D8F33

Gordon



> 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.
>


Iain



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