NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux

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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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?
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!