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NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux
sn00ker writes "In this story in The New Zealand Herald, we learn that the NZX stock exchange has moved their database systems to Oracle running on RedHat Linux, running on commodity Intel-based hardware. What's really impressive are the performance numbers they're claiming. Quoth the article, "One key query - searching the data on historical trades to identify maximum trade values - has been cut from 36 seconds to 0.03 seconds." An improvement of over 1000 times is spectacular in anybody's books, and is one hell of a boost for the proponents of Linux at the back-end of the financial world."
Obviously a much-needed index was added during the migration...
A 1000 fold improvement in performance, just by moving to linux. Incredible. Unbelievable even.
Comon guys. What kind of idiots do you take us for?
"We went for Linux, not just because we hated Microsoft, but because the cost was compelling," Phillips said.
(Insert funny remark here because I'm unfunny)
NZX stock exchange has moved their database systems to Oracle running on RedHat Linux,... and [this] is one hell of a boost for the proponents of Linux at the back-end of the financial world.
It's great news that Larry Ellison has Open Sourced Oracle!
And to think people criticize me for getting all my news from Slashdot.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
C'mon, it ain't nice to call NZ that!
dear sir you appear to be knowledgable about the subject. I have just poured hot grits down my pants as per the instructions, but have not been able to boot linux on the grits???? what am I doing wrong?
might be due to something a DBA has done
Lemme guess. You're a DBA and you've had a hard time with your boss lately.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
...for using the term "unices" to refer to different flavours of Unix (I like Chocolate Chip Meself).
On a more serious note, the statement made above just about applies to any operating system i.e.
If the world goes*insert OS name here*, *insert company name here* won't need to spend so much making sure its technology can run securely and reliably on every weird combination of hardware and operating system its customers adopt.
My Favourite Meme
they might have taken out the the bit of code that said
...
wait 35 seconds
Sshhhhh!
Don't bring facts into any argument for open source. The zealots will lynch you!
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Have To Smile :)
Old System: 5 x Apple IIes 1 x Dumptruck full of floppies 3 x Teams of disk-swapping runners
> Now if they had moved to MySQL...
That *is* a joke, right?
> 1000x performance increases are NOT gotten by changing your OS.
I beg to differ. I have many Slashdot posts from exceptionally informed sources stating that simply by using teh gentoo with -O6 and optimizing for j00r CPU such performance increases are easily obtainable.
It does say this was just one operation. I'm betting the first time they ran
DELETE FROM clients
It took 36 seconds to return. The second time it pretty much came straight back.
We tried Solaris on Linux,,,,,
Man, let me stand up and take my hat in genuine appreciation.
This ladies and gents, is a real hero.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
So the flow of information would be:
Geek -> Pointy Haired Boss -> PR Bullshit Man -> Journalist
And the final result doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Why does this come as a surprise?