[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00:24PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2009, general verbalised:
> 
> > The London Stock Exchange has decided to abandon its Microsoft
> > .NET-based trading system, TradElect, in favour of a Linux solution. As
> 
> As someone in the biz in my day job, this is not even slightly
> surprising. I am anti-shocked. (What proportion of the systems
> connecting to the LSE are Linux, I wonder? Most of them, I suspect, with
> most of the rest being Sun.)

+1 -- I have never understood how anyone could put anything mission
critical on a MS machine.

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