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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!
Old System: 5 x Apple IIes 1 x Dumptruck full of floppies 3 x Teams of disk-swapping runners
> 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.