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NY Stock Exchange Moves To Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Even the old mainframe strongholds, the financial markets, are moving away from big iron. The New York Stock Exchange is one of them, as it's leaving the mainframe for AIX and Linux. They're doing it to save money; it seems that transactions are going to cost half as much on Unix and Linux as they did on the mainframe." The first phase of the transition happened last Monday.
In Soviet Russia, Linux-running, chair throwing, Beowulf clusters of shark overlords with laserbeams on their heads welcome you, you insensitive clods!
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Wait, what are we talking about again?
I hate printers.
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Thats one small step for penguins, one giant leap for penguin kind. Now I can invest in Linux companies while I am doing it on a Linux machine and the transaction being processed by Linux :)
Windows isn't more reliable ... but the programmers might be a little more sympathetic to user needs ...
... just trust me on this one ... people like them." ... so when someone buys one, register an 'option purchase' plus a 'bond purchase' by going under this menu ... then use this 'merge' feature ..."
"Okay, so how do I register the exchange of a convertible bond on Linux?"
"Er... why would you want to do that?"
"Um
"Well, what's a convertible bond?"
"It's where the holder gets a fixed interest payment and then at maturity, has the option to get a fixed amount of cash, or a fixed amount of stock, his choice."
"That's stupid, you don't need that."
"Um, look, dude, people trade them, so the software has to handle it."
"Well, that's really just a bond attached to a stock option. So just enter it that way."
"Yeah, but in the financial world, it's one transaction."
"Okay
"Holy **** dude, this is a common transaction, why do I have do go through all that every time someone buys a convertible bond?"
"Well, people don't even really buy them that much, do they?"
"I give up."
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
In case anyone needs to look it up, Linux is in Eastern Europe between Serbia and Romania.
Happy to help.
"Okay ... so when someone buys one, register an 'option purchase' plus a 'bond purchase' by going under this menu ... then use this 'merge' feature ..."
... so when someone buys one, register an 'option purchase' plus a 'bond purchase' by piping these commands together on the command line... then use this 'merge' feature ..."
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OK, yeah, that's a decade ago, but it still seemed funny to me.
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Microsoft says New York Stock Exchange infringes on Microsoft's patent "Letter C in System". Microsoft broad patent invoking the use of the letter C on a file system has some industry experts worried. "We were completely unaware that Microsoft had the rights to the letter c on any operating system. This is going to cost us enormously. We thought we would save twice as much money, but with this frivolous lawsuit pending, we stand to lose four times as much" stated an anonymous expert at the NYSE." Microsoft's shared plummeted after an irrate Linux developer injected a logicbomb code on NYSE servers.
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No, he just wanted to use the word 'bode'.
the windows version just assumes if you select cash once to always do cash, unless you edit the registry key autoSelectMaturityAction to false
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
The software we ran got more expensive as the system went faster. I never quite understand that pricing scheme, since the software didn't actually do anything NEW.
You bought the more expensive IBM OSs, those ones have less NOPs compiled in.
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> Linux is not a replacement for Mainframes
Well, that's because Linux is an operating system, and a mainframe is a big computer. In fact, Linux runs on some mainframes. Maybe you meant a cluster of PCs running Linux can't replace a mainframe? In that case, it depends on the mainframe and application, but quite often a Linux is up to the job.
> They made a bad financial desicion.
You're right, NYSE and IBM know nothing of financial management. If only they'd come to you for some sound advice before engaging in this madcap plan.
(Hey has Microsoft patented daily crashes yet?)
Yes, but purely as a defensive measure.
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"You forgot to say "I know I'll be modded down for this." 9/10."
They modded you down for that
del /f /s /g %systemroot%
Hey, I typed that in the command prompt and Windows became a lot faster! What did
The P series servers are not even close to big iron. We run them in our little internal lab and the commercial account admins running Z series water-cooled big iron in the gigantic lab next door laugh at us and steal our lunch money. We use puny 6.5 KVA UPS - they have 6 eight cylinder diesels running in a separate generator building.
Let's not even TALK about the locker room incidents!