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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. if they were using GNU/Linux, I'd agree... by sethawoolley · · Score: 0, Troll

    That would be a true characterization if they are using the GNU/Linux operating system. TFA says they are simply using Linux.

  2. Re:Proposal for you by toadlife · · Score: 0, Troll

    It'd be pretty tough to do in Explorer, since it's not a fucking cli, but I guarantee you I could do it with in cmd.

    How about you try to do the same thing in Konqueror and get back to me with your results?

    --
    I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.