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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. "Finnish programing whiz Linus Torvalds" by jlusk4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Numbers of large companies and universities over the last two years have shifted their computer systems to the software developed by Finnish programing whiz Linus Torvalds.


    Interesting how the popular media (or the popular business media, or maybe just this magazine) still can't bring itself to say that Linux is developed by a horde of developers, only loosely organized and working under a model that doesn't quite fit the capitalist picture.

    They always have to have some identifiable person or company to point to. Just another version of "who do you sue?".

    John.

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