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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Free Ut2004? You bet! by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · 2004-07-12 19:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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1000x performance? by Ari_Haviv · 2004-07-12 20:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

i'd be more impressed if it was 1000x performance for kde/xwindows

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Re:Some kind of cluster by Achoi77 · 2004-07-12 23:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I bet the overhaul of support personell really helped in addition to the new hardware. Its hard to get work done efficiently with all those ale drinking and weed smoking hobbits!