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That's idiotic. Google made money early and often. 5 years in, it was profitable.

Twitter has lost money every quarter of the 10 years it has existed and has no hope of ever reaching even break even status. Literally no revenue.

The majority of users are not teenagers. And in reality we older fellows actually work for a living and make money for our companies. We are the actual USERS of the equipment.

Most teenagers are using computers for video games. It really doesn't matter what the OS GUI is like for this. If they complain about the "old GUI" it's often because they are too lazy to learn how to use it.

And furthermore "the better UI" simply sucks. Proof in point.

Any sane GUI designer would be wiser to think of the actual users, and not just what is a "subjectively better UI". There is a reason why things have been done the way they are for so long, and to ignore these reason is simply stupid.

Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.

On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android.
If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.

And since you seem to be unaware of history, what you're doing is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Win8 and failed miserably at. No one wants this but you so please give up.

Seriously, what don't you get... Unity was released in 2010. Here's a graph showing distro use:
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-co...

See how your distro use tanked in 2010? And Mint Spiked? Your users have spoken... listen!

So it sounds like you want them to ask on install if it's a mobile or desktop device, and install a touchscreen or desktop UI accordingly.

What he is saying is they'll auto-detect if it's a mobile or desktop device, and have the UI work as a touchscreen or desktop UI accordingly.

I'm not sure I see why you approach is the right idea and their approach is a disaster?

No one wants this but you so please give up.

Seriously, what don't you get... Unity was released in 2010. Here's a graph showing distro use:
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-co...

See how your distro use tanked in 2010? And Mint Spiked? Your users have spoken... listen!

According to that chart, Ubuntu has been steadily declining since 2005 and didn't "tank" in 2010 any worse than it did in any other year.

Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.

On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android.
If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.

And since you seem to be unaware of history, what you're doing is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Win8 and failed miserably at. No one wants this but you so please give up.

Seriously, what don't you get... Unity was released in 2010. Here's a graph showing distro use:
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-co...

See how your distro use tanked in 2010? And Mint Spiked? Your users have spoken... listen!

The emphasis was on "change of game-sized datasets", Linux kernel patches contribute on average 3,509 LoC per day, which is about what, half a MB per day?

If your browser is presented with a genuine signed Google.com certificate, issued by Honest Achmed's Trusty Certificates of Tehran Iran, then why shouldn't your browser just trust this certificate from a trusted CA?

Because if you don't accept, your browser will emit a shrill piercing wail, loudly declaiming your obscene and hertical attempts to use a secure connection which has not been certified. A yellow clad official -- likely of Arstotzkan origin -- will appear to lend an air of official disapproval to the disgraceful suggestion that you should prefer encryption, any encryption, over plain text without authentication.

So, you must Accept Our Glorious CA Validated HTTPS Protocols or else revert to wide open plain text. Cause no trouble.

P.S.

I personally believe that Firefox's self signed policies were the result of NSA lobbying/influence at Mozilla. The secure web was set back a decade by this decision, and the fallout has render the entire CA and hence https infrastructure all but useless.

I think a million is being grossly overoptimistic. Maybe several thousand.

For comparison, there were 1,316 kernel devs involved in Linux 3.2.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/...

According to this, it is used by Google, Facebook, AOL, ESPN, and whitehouse.gov. This 20-month old page also has a big list: WordPress.com, Pinterest, Reddit, MSN.com, WordPress.org, Amazon, Yandex, Microsoft.com, GO.com, Ask.com, ESPN, Craigslist, About.com, Go Daddy, Stack Overflow, Huffington Post, Instagram, Slideshare, Fox News, The Guardian, Etsy, LiveJournal, and Weather.com

Who are these fly-by-night sites? You can look at the HTML source for a reputable company's website instead if you want a much more credible source.

You had the unfortunate luck of having your story picked up during the middle of the slashdot beta shitfest, so most of the comments here will be about that. My condolences. (Also: the new beta sucks.)

Explain that jquery is not a hack or a workaround. It is a framework that is itself written in -- ta da! -- 100% valid javascript. Tell them it is nothing more than a collection of well-written, consistent, standards-based, heavily-reviewed and -tested code, and all it does is contain some pre-written libraries to make it easier to do common tasks.

It is sponsored by many large companies, including Wordpress, BlackBerry, Intel, Mozilla, and Adobe, to pick just the most recognizable names from that page.

According to this, it is used by Google, Facebook, AOL, ESPN, and whitehouse.gov. This 20-month old page also has a big list: WordPress.com, Pinterest, Reddit, MSN.com, WordPress.org, Amazon, Yandex, Microsoft.com, GO.com, Ask.com, ESPN, Craigslist, About.com, Go Daddy, Stack Overflow, Huffington Post, Instagram, Slideshare, Fox News, The Guardian, Etsy, LiveJournal, and Weather.com

I should have included this article which puts things in better perspective.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/12/broadband-prices/

CEO as of 2000 not 98.

" but their desktop software market is still near its peak using every honest measure such as those numbers that you wanted people to look at."
and that's the problem. IT's not going up and surpassing it's peak.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-microsoft-apple-and-google-1985-until-today/
Company value is about growth, and not only is MS not growing, it's failing to expand into new and emerging markets.

A lot of people load their JQuery libraries or whatnot from a CDN. In fact I think that's the preferred behaviour. There are multiple CDNs so the list is a bit longer and more annoying than you'd think.

Some links for background:
http://encosia.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for-you/
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/07/24/best-cdn-for-jquery-in-2012/

In absolute terms, Linux won, as is "the most used OS across all computer devices in absolute numbers. Now, if you focus your attention in a particular area could not be as used there as in the global average, but those areas seem to be losing relevance each day, in part by the growing market of cellphones/tablets for doing things that used to require a desktop computer, the Microsoft election of Windows 8 for everything, and maybe more recent, in the lack of privacy (that for enterprise data could be a killer) implied in Microsoft solutions, specially the hosted ones like Office 365.

Who are these people? Did they actually switch en masse?

Ask these people.

Oops, messed up my link:

He's referring to this

As much as I hate Facebook, and I believe the number of true Facebook profiles are less then 250M, "To Caesar What Is Caesar's". Just because you think the added value Facebook creates is not rocket science, Facebook not only does use high tech software architecture but also creates software technology and delivers some as open source. I would recommend you read http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/ And trust me when your scale goes above 10 digit numbers nothing is trivial.

100Mbit/sec internet is common in South Korea, so what is it that they do differently with their high speed internet?

Lan partys don't count.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/05/02/south-korea-internet-speed-17-5-mbps/

Peak speeds of ~48mbps on average is no where near the speeds I'm talking about.

Or consider changing the speed of light. If you live 1/2 way around the world from the server, it would take 133 ms just for a single round trip. And that's only taking into account the speed of light, and not counting real world scenarios. In the real world, you effectively have to double that, giving you about 266 ms just for a single ping. tcp handshake is a little more complex. Even New York to Los Angeles is about 4000 km, which would give a theoretical minimum ping time of 26.8 ms.

It's been obvious for a long time there's a substantial disconnect regarding market share. Apple/OS X appears to be a very popular choice for people's personal computers; but, for most businesses, it's made fewer inroads. The places you'll find it used for work are creative fields - advertising, marketing, and design... but those are small potatoes in terms of overall numbers of computers.

There are also significant overall differences regionally. Macs are almost never used in Asia, for instance.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/11/21/web-pages-getting-bloated-here-is-why/

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/

Why, we went from "whiny 1%" to "6 percent of web users" already - and 6 percent of web users is "whiny hundred million people". And then, what matters in decision to support/don't support a feature is not percentage of _web_ users, but percentage of _this program_ users. For FF it makes "whiny every one of five".

Same for Ubuntu and Unity, seems like they had "whiny every next one".

Because UI designers know better and users are just whiny.

Learn to code properly.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

Test your website there.

A paltry 248.6kB for my web page.

Test my website (top site in my sig) against yours. Can you score higher than my typical average of 79%?

    You know, I'd be willing to bet that the wonders of the Internet have really advanced what they can do too.

    Not long ago, I was thinking back to when I was a kid. There was no Internet. Well, there was, but I had no way to get to it.

    When I graduated high school, there were less than 10 web sites. We did have BBSs. Most had porn and door games. And there were the collections of text files, from dubious sources. Oh, we shouldn't forget the experts that populated the newsgroups. Well, about the same ratio of experts, to liars who said they were experts, as Wikipedia has. :)

    I lived far enough from any major cities, where the libraries had scarce information. Good luck finding experts. The closest I found to civilian aerospace group was some folks who made model rockets, but never went above a Class C motor.

    Getting my hands on construction equipment was rough. Flea markets, yard sales for deals, or if I had money (ya, right), I could order through retail outlets.

    Now we can get tools and supplies through Craigslist and eBay. We can find and talk to experts world wide almost instantly (depending on when they read their email). We can read people's accounts of what they've done, and watch videos on how successful they were. And hell, if I were to start a project, I could present it to hundreds of thousands of people in just a day (submit the story to Slashdot), or possibly more attention by emailing press releases to every publication on the planet.

    I wish I was doing stuff that I did when I was a kid.. I had room to do stuff. Growing up on a farm sucked for socialization, but had it's advantages, like I could build a rocket at the house, and launch it in the back field. I could probably have done motor tests on some pretty big motors, and no one would have cared.

    Then again, if I was still out there, I wouldn't be making as much money as I am now, so I most likely wouldn't be able to fund crazy hobbies. :)

IIS and Exchange are actually widely used - Microsoft owns almost 50% of that space

You are lumping IIS and Exchange together for some reason. IIS has less than 16% market share

jobs on high dictated the move to intel

Any narrow advantage held by the Power architecture was quickly disappearing by 2003 when the first Operton chips with AMD64/SSE2 hit the market (for users able to jump to 64-bits), and pretty much obliterated with the introduction of the Core Duo in January 2006.

x86 had an ugly childhood, but it turns out there wasn't anything desperately wrong with its performance potential. Jobs made such a big deal of x86 being somehow deeply inferior. The x86 is deeply inferior when you try to build efficient devices under a watt. The little tricks used in x86 to achieve high performance are expensive in power consumption and nearly impossible to fix without an instruction set overhaul. ARM was the true victor.

You really have the edict entirely backward. It was Jobs' edict that Apple would slug it out on a platform with a small market share, and for which IBM could not afford to develop to market-leading performance on an indefinite basis. Finally Jobs lifted the anti-Intel edict because he had no choice. Not just in performance, but also available production quantity.

When you get right down to it, I'm sure Jobs regarded PowerPC as a convenient walled garden. He didn't want his miracle machine to become too compatible. But it was probably also a huge burden to carry your own ISA for 10% market share. Look how they've done since.

The money made by Microsoft, Apple and Google, 1985 until today

The decade of PowerPC pretty much corresponds with the Apple doldrums. Imagine that.

I'm curious whether his reality distortion field penetrates from the after life, or whether Gandalf the White will arrive to perform an exorcism at long last.

135TB in a 4U Blackblaze storage pod, 280 rack units in a 20' x 8' [ ... x 8' high? ] shipping container, gives 9.5PB or log2(135 * 8 * 10^12 * 280 / 4) 2^56 bits of raw online storage.

So now you *only* need 4 billion (2^32) shipping containers... yeah right. Stacking them 8 high, with no space for walkways or roads, would cover an area at least 55 miles on each side.

Yes, but Cray comes with networking a-la pasta.
Someone needs to teach them proper cable management.

The very idea of a "killer app" for Ubuntu is in many ways contrary to the idea of free/open software because such software can always be modified, forked, and/or ported.

Take this argument to its logical conclusion and there is no compelling reason for anyone to migrate to Linux as a client OS.

The numbers seem to bear this out: Top 20 countries by Linux market share

When the PC began to make its mark in the late seventies and early eighties, the first and most important lesson you learned was to choose your platform based on the programs you needed and wanted to run.

The "killer app" really does matter.

Microsoft is the has been that isn't forgotten and still wields power.

If you look at the numbers out there in the really real world, Microsoft is still Goliath, and Apple is still Goliath Jr. And no matter how you slice it (I hope those links are reputable, they had pretty graphs that said what I wanted to see them say... h0h0h0) they are still leading jack and shit.

I've definitely perceived Microsoft slipping, but don't count them out yet. They still have some damage to do. The good news is that their operating systems don't really seem to be getting more technically competent, but Linux seems to actually keep improving; we could quibble about distributions but Gnome 2 is not going to disappear when your favorite distribution picks up Unity or Gnome 3. MacOS also seems to be improving fairly steadily. What's Microsoft's problem? And how can we encourage them to keep having it?

Microsoft is the has been that isn't forgotten and still wields power.

If you look at the numbers out there in the really real world, Microsoft is still Goliath, and Apple is still Goliath Jr. And no matter how you slice it (I hope those links are reputable, they had pretty graphs that said what I wanted to see them say... h0h0h0) they are still leading jack and shit.

I've definitely perceived Microsoft slipping, but don't count them out yet. They still have some damage to do. The good news is that their operating systems don't really seem to be getting more technically competent, but Linux seems to actually keep improving; we could quibble about distributions but Gnome 2 is not going to disappear when your favorite distribution picks up Unity or Gnome 3. MacOS also seems to be improving fairly steadily. What's Microsoft's problem? And how can we encourage them to keep having it?

Apple's have only gotten out of the 2% of computers in the last 2 or 3 years. Even now they struggle to get 5% worldwide.

This Ars Technica article has Apple at 10% market share in the US, this one has it at 14%. That's a lot of macs. Apple is one of the few companies that have consistently seen their market share grow the last few years in a floundering market.

Then there's Apple's strength in certain niches, like on college campuses :

"According to the Office of Information Technology (OIT), 45 percent of computers purchased this year were Macs, more than in any previous year. In 2003, when this year's seniors arrived on campus, just 15 percent of them chose Macs. The next year, a quarter of incoming freshmen did, and the year after that, 38 percent."

That's a 2006 article and personally I have seen no reversal of that trend, quite the opposite actually. And you'd expect colleges to be hotspots of all kinds of mischief like hacking and exploits.

Take note of the last one. IOS drops that cost a lot, making malware on phones economically viable. Further more, IOS has proven itself to be quite vulnerable in the past, you do know that jailbreaking is done by exploiting a vulnerability dont you. Feel free to use the "jailbreak me" PDF vulnerability as an example. The only reason it hasn't been exploited is because there's more profit in Windows malware.

iOS has had a few exploits and yet we've had only 1 or 2 actual (and amateurish) attacks out in the wild impacting very few people (only jailbreakers with default passwords.) Only twice has there been a remote exploit and both were promptly patched by Apple, the rest have been pretty complicated hacks that require reinstalling the device or putting it in recovery mode. That's a pretty good security record, as good as any device or OS out there.

I don't buy your explanation that it's not economically viable. 120 million of these devices have been sold, mostly to reasonably well off people. That's a huge "market" for exploits.

Claiming you are automagically protected when you've never even been attacked is naive at best. It's like Lisa's (Simpson) tiger repelling rock, you cant use the fact that there are no tigers around the rock as proof of it's tiger repelling abilities.

That's not what I said, no-one claims macs are "magically immune". What I said was that people have been predicting a deluge of viruses and malware for mac for a decade now and it hasn't happened. Sooner or later they might be right, just like the people who say "repent, the end is nigh" might be right someday. In the mean time rehashing old arguments that haven't actually been proven to be true in reality is a waste of time. Reality is the ultimate test of the theory.

Revealed: Google’s new mega data center in Finland

CHK
$953M net income.
$113M Compensation to CEO (salary $975k, base compensation 18M)
$?50M Compensation to COO (Salary, ???, base compensation 9M so 50M total?)
$?50M Compensation to roughly a dozen more executives (Base compensation about $4 million each for those with a visible base compensation).

1% Dividend to shareholders ($0.075 share)
-20% to -50% Return to Shareholders over the last 5 years
(There is a return from 6 years ago.. but no net return from 1996-1997 when it was at the same price).

Most of the rest of the employees make normal salaries.
Lot of them (5,000+)

But this is where we are headed...
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/17/internet-companies-with-few-employees-but-millions-of-users/

And CHK is more of an old school company...

The trend is here
SEMGROUP
$20.17 bil 60.4 $3.56 bil $239 mil $388 mil 1,622 Dec

That's a huge amount of money for a tiny number of employees. Privately held. And most of the beneit almost certainly goes to a few executives the same as CHK above.

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Our tax structure creates a huge incentive to reduce the number of workers.
And to move the employees you do have to staffing companies instead of keeping them as employees.
And to move jobs to other countries.

yet the executives still want to live here where you don't get shot for breaking environmental laws.

Years ago I bought an Amiga 500+ with loads of games, one of which was Sim City. I thought it was tough going with my buildings being destroyed all the time by natural disasters. It soon improved when I found the code booklet, which was printed in dark red with maroon letters to stop it being photocopied. Other games like Microprose F1 GP would ask for a word to be typed from a random part of the manual.

Monkey Island 2 and F/A-18 Interceptor had a code wheel, and annoyingly trying to play Another World on my GP2X handheld emulator soon had it asking for codes. It's not so handy having to print 20 pages of gibberish symbols out.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/26/wacky-copy-protection-methods-from-the-good-old-days/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/30/Another+World.html
http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/Code%20Wheel.zip

Man, I guess ol' MS is doing something right then too, seeing as how they clear almost double the net profit of apple. When did subjective, volatile stock prices became some sort of standard of real-world (not perceived) value? Aren't we geeks here who try to actually understand what numbers mean and be objective, rather than parroting out worthless numbers to imply apple dominance? http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-microsoft-apple-and-google-1985-until-today/

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/ Dimly lit, lots of blue and green accent lighting. Lots of organics, running water, etc. And keep it a few degrees below normal room temperature.

When I saw this on Slashdot, I immediately thought back to these guys in Sweden who built an underground data centre... the pictures look cool... maybe some ideas to take away from here. I'm sure this was covered on Slashdot too at the time?

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/

Coolest Datacentre ever. They have submarine engines for backup power!

Dated today, 10 August 2010:

Ubuntu Server Adoption on the Rise. Also today: The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market. This one says Ubuntu "has become the largest Linux desktop OS distribution by far" by cannibalizing other Linux distros.

Now do you have stats supporting your assertion "Ubuntu is dying"? Or is it your opinion?

Falcon

Netcraft confirms it.

Dated today, 10 August 2010:
Ubuntu Server Adoption on the Rise. Also today: The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market. This one says Ubuntu "has become the largest Linux desktop OS distribution by far" by cannibalizing other Linux distros.

Now do you have stats supporting your assertion "Ubuntu is dying"? Or is it your opinion?

Falcon

A quick search on the Internet revealed that a lot of them get bought out.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/02/06/the-seven-largest-open-source-deals/

Sun buys MySQL, $1 billion, 2008
Sun now has their hands on the world’s most widely used open source database.

Red Hat buys Cygnus Solutions, $675 million, 1999
Red Hat started the open source acquisition race early when they bought Cygnus Solutions, providers of open source software support.

Citrix buys XenSource, $500 million, 2007
Considering how hot virtualization is right now, we can see why Citrix bought XenSource, the company behind the Xen virtualization software.

Yahoo buys Zimbra, $350 million, 2007
Yahoo already have their own email services, and with Zimbra they got an integrated email, messaging and collaboration software.

Red Hat buys JBoss, $350 million, 2006
Red Hat strengthened their SOA offerings by buying the JBoss Java application server.

Novell buys SUSE, $210 million, 2003
Novell got their own Linux distribution by buying SUSE.

Nokia buys Trolltech, $153 million, 2008
Trolltech is the company behind the Qt GUI framework which is used by the popular Linux desktop environment KDE.

Care to define who the "entitlement generation" is? According to this recent study, the average age of slashdot readers is 40.4. Are you implying that aging boomers/Gen X-ers are that "entitlement generation?"

(Or are you just trolling?)

Actually, they're probably HP boxes. Of course, those HPs are similar to low-end Sun x86s.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/

"Google secrecy

Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have. One big reason for this is that almost all IP addresses that Google uses (and there are a lot of them) are listed to their Mountain View, California address, so just looking at IP addresses (with IP WHOIS or IP-to-location databases) won’t help you figure out where their data centers are or how many they have.

In addition to this, Google usually seeks permits for their data center projects using companies (LLCs) that don’t mention Google at all, for example Lapis LLC in North Carolina and Tetra LLC in Iowa.

Since Google tends to be quite secretive about their data centers in general, the information we have presented here most likely isn’t 100% complete"

I've been to Google and found it down for a few minutes at least twice and there are numerous instances where gmail has been unavailable.

Gmail downtimes, while frequent enough and long enough to be annoying, have been gmail-specific downtimes, not total google failures. Google search downtimes were measured in 2007 by pingdom[1]. I can't find anything more recent, but it doesn't appear anyone thinks it is worse, otherwise they'd certainly write about it. You must do a lot of searches to notice 30-40 minutes of downtime per year.

If Google goes down for a few seconds, you hit refresh and blame your ISP. If, for example, the telephone company's accounting system goes down for a few seconds then they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If your phone service goes down during a call, you hang up and call again. If Google's accounting system that counts all charged ad clicks goes down for a few seconds, they lose thousands of dollars[2,3]. In fact if there's even a delay, adsense publishers will notice[4]. You are comparing apples and oranges in your statement because you mix the user view with the company's global view. In reality the two "utilities" are pretty similar with large downtime cost for billing and in the user behavior for short outages.

Btw, if you know a telephone company that makes $2T/year, please let me know so I can invest in them. AT&T makes "only" $124B, or ~$3900/sec.

[1] http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/09/26/google-availability-differs-greatly-between-countries/
[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=GOOG&annual
[3] $21.7E9/year / (365.24*24*60*60 sec/year) = ~$688/sec; a few seconds could be $2000.
[4] http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3929862.htm

(1) any history of letting police walk in and wreck stuff

(2) the décor

Case in Point

World's most secure data center

This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain.

And it is real. It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Swedenâ(TM)s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).

Exactly.

Just copy the general ideas of this datacenter in Sweden.

Sharks and laser beams would fit right in.

I said at least 1. from here

September 8, 2008: London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange had to stop trading for more than seven hours due an issue with its new trading platform, co-developed with Microsoft.

They had specificially chosen windows for reliability

The incident could prove to be particularly embarrassing for Microsoft who at the end of 2006 launched a huge advertising campaign stating that the London Stock Exchange had chosen Windows over Linux because of reliability issues. An opinion obviously not shared by the New York Stock Exchange who has been using Linux and AIX for over a year without any outage at all.

note the NYSE is has been running for years with no major outages (even most 'major' outages last an hour not a day)

june 3, 2008: OMX Nordic Exchange and the Oslo Stock Exchange

The OMX Nordic Exchange and the Oslo Stock Exchange opened five and a half hours late due to a problem with the trading system. Just the day before, the start of trading had been delayed by 40 minutes due to the same problem. Stock exchanges in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo were all affected (they use the same backend system).

oh OMX = NASDAQ OMX, but finding out what software they're running is a bit tricky unless microsoft are gloating about the switch (as they were in with LSE)