NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux

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Posted by timothy on Monday July 12, 2004 @06:22PM from the marketing-victory dept.

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."

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Always check your indexes by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 18:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Obviously a much-needed index was added during the migration...
Slashdot: fair and balanced by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 18:28 · Score: 5, Funny

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?
I like the quote by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 18:32 · Score: 4, Funny

I couldn't think of anything funny to say, so I'll just post the quote :)
"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)
Re:Linux? by orthogonal · 2004-07-12 18:36 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Linux at the back-end of the financial world." by elucubra · 2004-07-12 18:52 · Score: 5, Funny

C'mon, it ain't nice to call NZ that!
Re:Linux? by cujo_1111 · 2004-07-12 19:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Sshhhhh!

Don't bring facts into any argument for open source. The zealots will lynch you!

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Favourite Quote... by Boricle · 2004-07-12 20:13 · Score: 3, Funny

"We went for Linux, not just because we hated Microsoft, but because the cost was compelling," Phillips said.
Have To Smile :)
Re:Some kind of cluster by nametaken · 2004-07-12 20:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Old System: 5 x Apple IIes 1 x Dumptruck full of floppies 3 x Teams of disk-swapping runners
Re:1000x performance increases... by chegosaurus · 2004-07-12 22:05 · Score: 4, Funny

> 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.
36 seconds to 0.03 seconds by chegosaurus · 2004-07-12 23:40 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
Macho, macho ,men by jotaeleemeese · 2004-07-13 00:05 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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