NYSE Moves to Linux

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 14, 2007 @01:29PM from the penguins-with-dollars-in-their-bills dept.

blitzkrieg3 writes "The New York Times is reporting on how the NYSE group now feels that Linux is 'mature enough' for the New York Stock Exchange. They are using commodity x86 based Hewlett-Packard hardware and Linux in place of their traditional UNIX machines. From NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow: 'We don't want to be closely aligned with proprietary Unix. No offense to HP-UX, but we feel the same way about [IBM's] AIX, and we feel the same way to some extent about Solaris. Other reasons cited for the switch were increased flexibility and lower cost.'"

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Re:So they moved from UNIX to Linux by Windom+Earle · 2007-12-14 16:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

I suspect they did NOT switch to GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is a particular OS based on the Linux kernel, one that Debian among other integrates and distributes. I suspect this HP variant is not all GNU and probably amounts to Linux gelled by HP with their own integration effort. It probably is version controlled by HP. I doubt if there's an anonymous CVS site we can grab it from. For HP to be making the uptime guarantees that they are, it has a thick layer of their own people watching it over. You ain't gonna download the .iso or grab a CD copy from cheapbytes.