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NY Stock Exchange Moves To Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the bye-bye-big-iron dept.

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.

3 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. TWNBWFM by dattaway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This Will Not Bode Well For Microsoft

  2. Re:Meme wet dream by JonathanR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They're frikin laser beams, you insensitive clod!

  3. Microsoft tax? by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did they pay up yet? Or will microsoft sue the stock exchange and piss them off.

    See how fast their value goes down if they try it.

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