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NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Time to Raise the Standard by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank you, you have now seen the dregs of the internet..

    Groups of hate-mongers here Parade as "Linux Lovers", but in actually are Windows-Haters. Before Slashdot became a corporate entity, they SHOWED OS and browser statistics on this website. Once they were bought (out), they removed the statistics as they were embarassing. They showed that stats to this website are nearly the SAME as any other website.

    Quite an embarassment to "Open Source Lovers".. The Truth....

    These people are in the same class of hate as are Bush-Haters. No real sense or proof to back up their following thoughts. Just plain ol knee jerk chatter.

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