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NYSE Goes To Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the the-penguins-wins-again dept.

Aligrip writes "It appears that IBM has convinced the folks at the Securities Industry Automation Corp (SIAC) to move their entire trading network to Linux as explained in this article in the Investors Business Daily. The authors predict that this deal could give Linux "a hot new beachhead with financial institutions". Cool!"

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  1. Oh boy by Anomolous+Cow+Herd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So now, instead of occasional 4 hour outage when someone screws up software upgrades, we get weekly crashes when some shmuck decides to upgrade to the latest "stable" kernel? Woo hoo! Go Linux!

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