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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NO WAY! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 18:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Whats the story about again?
WOW!~ by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 18:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fast enough for a first post even!
1. Re:WOW!~ by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 19:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  You likewise fail it, you Bush-loving, Windows 3.1-running wannabe-Linut WhoreWalds.
2. Re:WOW!~ by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 19:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I totally draw the line at Bush Loving. The rest, I'm guilty as charged.
  
  BTW, if I HAD been using the NZSE system, I woudl have got first post!
But does it Run Linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 19:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those puppies in Soviet Russia, you Insensitive CLOD!
In Mixed-Economy New Zealand, Linux ports YOU!
Free Ut2004? You bet! by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · 2004-07-12 19:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

**bandwidth needed!**

Here is a torrent for all SIX cds of Unreal Tournament 2004! enjoy!

Here it is, join the cause

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Re:Some kind of cluster by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 20:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

They ran a 20-year old UNIX multi-processor proprietry system. Effectively flat-files.

Trust an open-source hippy to mis-interpret this article to mean 'Yay for Linux!' Pfff...
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!
Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-12 23:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is linux better than my Microsoft Optical Mouse?