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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.

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  1. Re:Meme wet dream by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You forgot to say "I know I'll be modded down for this." 9/10.

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  2. Sure...for the "right" price.... by Joce640k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IBM will support old hardware, they'll just charge you a fortune for the privilege.

    I suspect that this "maintenance cost" is one of the reasons for the change mentioned in the article.

    Move to commodity PCs, increase redundancy, profit!

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